The Teen Choice Awards is an annual awards show that airs on the Fox television network. The awards honor the year's biggest achievements in music, film, sports, television, fashion, and more, voted by viewers aged 13 to 19.

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As the executive producers, Bob Bain and Michael Burg came together to create an award show geared toward a teen demographic, somewhat older than that of the Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards, but similar to that of MTV. Greg Sills has been the supervising producer and Paul Flattery has been the producer every year since its inception in 1999.

The format of the show has remained the same, awarding the achievements of those in the entertainment and athletic industries with non-traditional categories fixed into the ceremony. The show was held at the Barker Hangar at Santa Monica Airport for its first two shows in 1999 and 2000. From 2001 to 2013, it was held at the Gibson Amphitheatre in Universal City, California. In some years it airs live, but usually it airs on a one-day delay. With the demolition of the amphitheater in 2013, the show moved to a new location. Then after the remodeled Pauley Pavilion at UCLA in Westwood, Los Angeles was flooded by a broken 30" water pipe on July 29, 2014, the show was moved to the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles.[1] The 2015 Awards were held at The Galen Center (USC) and the 2016 Awards were held at the refurbished Forum in Inglewood.

Ballots were once used in teen-oriented magazines, where readers were to purchase and tear out their ballot. Votes could also be cast online through Fox.com. In 2008, Fox and the show's producers created Teenchoiceawards.com as the official website for the Teen Choice Awards. In 2009, the number of votes cast was in excess of 83 million. Votes are now cast online through Twitter, FOX.com, and the FOX NOW app. In 2016, more than 37 million votes were cast.[2]

Since the ceremony's inception, the show has given out genuine custom-made surfboards to individual winners. The surfboard was chosen as the award because it represents the freedom of the summer vacation for teens.[3] Some celebrities, such as Jennifer Love Hewitt, have actually used them to surf; Marlon Wayans famously said, "Brothers don't surf"; and in 2009, Hugh Jackman, upon winning his first one, said that he was no longer the only Australian without a surfboard. Each of the custom-made surfboard awards costs US$800 to make.[4]

In 2008, Dosomething.org sponsored The Do Something Award—which recognized young people. Nine nominees—who saw a problem in the world and then tackled it—each won $10,000 for their cause. The winner received $100,000. The Do Something Award (formerly the BR!CK Awards) is a program of Do Something, a New York-based non-profit that reaches[clarification needed] about 11.5 million young people annually. The award was not presented in 2009. It was replaced with "Choice Celebrity Activist" which was won by Hayden Panettiere.

On August 11, 2014, after losing his category, Vine star Cameron Dallas tweeted that the awards ceremony was "rigged", saying that he had been informed six days prior to the actual event that he had won the award, and the runners-up were told to still try to solicit votes from their followers, even though the results had already been decided. He also tweeted "So I found out that the Teen Choice Awards were rigged and used powerful internet people for marketing. I'm sad now. Television is stupid" before deleting the tweets, saying he "should have taken the high road", but he "didn't like the fact that [his fans] were being lied to".[25] Soon after Dallas' initial tweets, fellow Viner Carter Reynolds stated that the Teen Choice Awards had "used everyone for promotion", using the hashtag "#TeensDontHaveAChoiceAwards", which soon began trending by fans who noticed the disclaimer at the end of the show saying that the producers reserved the right to choose the winners.[26][27]

In earlier years of the show, the voting rules page[28] stated "Teenasaurus Rox reserves the right to choose the winner from the top four vote generators". That is no longer the case.[29]

In 2016 controversy started on Twitter when fans became very upset when they found out that late pop singer Christina Grimmie won the award for Choice Web Star: Music but was not mentioned during the show. Many fans felt that the award show should have been dedicated to her memory or at least for a moment.[citation needed]

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Fox Broadcasting Company
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The Fox Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcast television network that is owned by the Fox Entertainment Group subsidiary of 21st Century Fox. It is the third largest major network in the world based on total revenues, assets. Launched on October 9,1986 as a competitor to the Big Three television networks, Fox and its affiliated companies operate many entertainment channels in international markets, although these do not necessarily air the same programming as the U. S. network. Most viewers in Canada have access to at least one U. S, the network is named after sister company 20th Century Fox, and indirectly for producer William Fox, who founded one of the movie studios predecessors, Fox Film. Fox is a member of the North American Broadcasters Association and the National Association of Broadcasters, 20th Century Fox had been involved in television production as early as the 1950s, producing several syndicated programs. Following the demise of the DuMont Television Network in August of that year after it became mired in financial problems. 20th Century Fox would also produce original content for the NTA network, KTTV in Los Angeles, KRIV in Houston, WFLD-TV in Chicago, and KRLD-TV in Dallas. In October 1985, 20th Century Fox announced its intentions to form a television network that would compete with ABC, CBS. The plans were to use the combination of the Fox studios, organizational plans for the network were held off until the Metromedia acquisitions cleared regulatory hurdles. Then, in December 1985, Rupert Murdoch agreed to pay $325 million to acquire the remaining equity in TCF Holdings from his original partner, Marvin Davis. These first six stations, then broadcasting to a reach of 22% of the nations households. Except for KDAF, all of the original owned-and-operated stations are part of the Fox network today. Like the core O&O group, Foxs affiliate body consisted of independent stations. The Fox Broadcasting Company launched at 11,00 p. m. Eastern and its inaugural program was a late-night talk show, The Late Show, which was hosted by comedian Joan Rivers. By early 1987, Rivers quit The Late Show after disagreements with the network over the creative direction. The network expanded its programming into prime time on April 5,1987, with Children and the sketch comedy series The Tracey Ullman Show. Fox added one new show per week over the several weeks, with the drama 21 Jump Street. On July 11, the network rolled out its Saturday night schedule with the premiere of the drama series Werewolf

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Surfboard
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A surfboard is an elongated platform used in the sport of surfing. Surfboards are relatively light, but are enough to support an individual standing on them while riding a Ocean surface wave breaking wave. Major advances over the years include the addition of one or more fins on the rear of the board to improve directional stability. Modern surfboards are made of polyurethane or polystyrene foam covered with layers of fiberglass cloth, the result is a light and strong surfboard that is buoyant and maneuverable. Recent developments in technology have included the use of carbon fiber. Each year, approximately 400,000 surfboards are manufactured, the surface of the board that rests on the water, usually concave but sometimes convex. Modern surfboards often contain multiple contours on the bottom of the board and these concaves have different uses and vary among different types of surfboards. Most concaves on the modern shortboard begin about twelve inches back from the nose of the board on the bottom, the purpose of concave is to direct water through the fins of the surfboard. Surfboard shapers sometimes experiment with concaves to create different drive and response characteristics on each individual surfboard, some older and more traditional surfboards along with many modern boards that take inspiration from these older boards utilize a convex rather than concave design on the bottom of the surfboard. These boards displace more water and sit lower in the wave than a surfboard with a concave bottom, the deck is the surface of the board that the surfer stands on. Surfwax is applied to this surface, wax comes in different degrees of hardness allowing its application in differing water temperatures. The surfboard fin is a stabilizing rudder fixed to the rear of the surfboard to prevent it from sliding sideways. In the early days, surfers would stabilize the board by hanging the toes of their foot over the edge of the board. The American surfer Tom Blake was the first to experiment with adding a fin to a surfboard, fastening the keel from an old speedboat to a surfboard in 1935. About one or two later, Woody Spider Brown independently developed a similar design, but Brown himself gave Blake precedence, about 36 or 37, somewhere in there. But, I didnt know anything about and his experiments with adding fins to surfboards, see, we were all separated out. I was in San Diego and he was in L. A. way up there and this innovation revolutionized surfing, allowing surfers to direct the boards momentum and providing more balance when turning. The template of the surfboard fin was developed by George Greenough in the 1960s

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Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards
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The Nickelodeon Kids Choice Awards, also known as the KCAs or Kids Choice Awards, is an annual awards show that airs on the Nickelodeon cable channel. Usually held on a Saturday night in late March or early April, the show that honors the years biggest television, movie, winners receive a hollow orange blimp figurine, a logo outline for much of the networks 1984–2009 era, which also functions as a kaleidoscope. The show features celebrity guests and musical acts. In recent years, slime stunts have been incorporated into the show, the KCAs also host live entertainment. It has also known to overwhelmingly cover people with the networks trademark green slime. The series SpongeBob SquarePants has won the most KCA awards, with fourteen overall through the series run, individually, Selena Gomez and Will Smith have both won the most trophies with ten, followed by, Miley Cyrus and Amanda Bynes. Whoopi Goldberg is the person to have won a Kids Choice Award, along with the mainstream EGOT combination of an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar. Rosie ODonnell and Jack Black have hosted the show the most times, alan Goodman, Albie Hecht, and Fred Seibert created the awards show after Nickelodeon produced a show called The Big Ballot in 1987, named for the ballots kids voted with. To vote, the viewers would send in ballots and then before the show, the ballots would be counted, Goodman, Hecht, and Seibert felt that the network needed a bigger, more exciting platform. Hecht selected the awards logo from a series of network designs created by original logo designers Tom Corey and Scott Nash, overseen by Goodman, the award was configured into the current blimp shape/kaleidoscope in 1990. The only change to the award since that time has been to change the embossed logotype on the side of the trophy for 2010 to fit the new logo typeface. In 2010, an application and mobile browser voting was also added. The 2009 Kids Choice Awards featured a new award called The Big Green Help Award which goes to the celebrity who goes above, the inaugural award was presented to Leonardo DiCaprio. For the 2010 awards, the The Big Green Help award was renamed The Big Help award, unlike traditional awards shows, the Kids Choice Awards uses other items to announce an award winner rather than a traditional envelope. The show sometimes uses balloons, T-shirts, models, giant letters, stickers. voting for Canadians became available for the 2010 ceremony with the inauguration of Nickelodeons Canadian service in November 2009. In June 2010, Nickelodeon Latin America announced a Kids Choice Awards for Mexico, the Australian Kids Choice Awards had its last one in 2012. In August 2011, Nickelodeon Latin America announced a Kids Choice Awards for Argentina, in June 2014, Nickelodeon Latin America announced a Kids Choice Awards for Colombia. In July 2014, Nickelodeon presented the Kids Choice Sports awards, honoring kids favorite athletes, teams, michael Strahan produced and hosted the ceremony

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MTV
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MTV is an American cable and satellite television channel owned by Viacom Media Networks and headquartered in New York City. Launched on August 1,1981, the originally aired music videos as guided by television personalities known as video jockeys. In its early years, MTVs main target demographic was young adults and it has received criticism towards this change of focus, both by certain segments of its audience and musicians. MTVs influence on its audience, including issues involving censorship and social activism, has also been a subject of debate for several years, in recent years, MTV had struggled with the secular decline of music-related cable media. In April 2016, MTV announced it would start to return to its original music roots with the reintroduction of the classic MTV series MTV Unplugged. It was also reported that the series MTV Cribs would be making a return on Snapchat, MTV has spawned numerous sister channels in the US and affiliated channels internationally, some of which have gone independent. As of July 2015, approximately 92,188,000 US households have received MTV, several earlier concepts for music video-based television programming had been around since the early 1960s. The Beatles had used music videos to promote their records starting in the mid-1960s, CBS rejected the idea, but Williams premiered his own musical composition Classical Gas on the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, where he was head writer. The series featured clips from various popular artists, but was canceled by its distributor in 1971. The channel, which featured video disc jockeys, signed a deal with US Cable in 1978 to expand its audience from retail to cable television, the service was no longer active by the time MTV launched in 1981. The QUBE system offered many specialized channels, One of these specialized channels was Sight on Sound, a music channel that featured concert footage and music-oriented television programs. With the interactive QUBE service, viewers could vote for their favorite songs, the original programming format of MTV was created by media executive Robert W. Pittman, who later became president and chief executive officer of MTV Networks. Pittman had test-driven the music format by producing and hosting a 15-minute show, Album Tracks, the inspiration for PopClips came from a similar program on New Zealands TVNZ network named Radio with Pictures, which premiered in 1976. The concept itself had been in the works since 1966, when record companies began supplying the New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation with promotional music clips to play on the air at no charge. Few artists made the trip to New Zealand to appear live. A shortened version of the shuttle launch ID ran at the top of hour in various forms. The first music video shown on MTV was The Buggles Video Killed the Radio Star and this was followed by the video for Pat Benatars You Better Run. Sporadically, the screen would go black when an employee at MTV inserted a tape into a VCR, MTVs lower third graphics that appeared near the beginning and end of music videos would eventually use the recognizable Kabel typeface for about 25 years

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Gibson Amphitheatre
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Universal Amphitheatre was an indoor amphitheatre located in Los Angeles, California within Universal City. It was originally built as a venue, opening in the summer of 1972 with a production of Jesus Christ Superstar. It was remodeled and converted into a theatre in 1982 to improve acoustics. The amphitheater closed on September 6,2013 to be demolished for The Wizarding World of Harry Potter attraction at Universal Studios Hollywood, the Amphitheatre was originally built as a daytime arena where patrons of the Universal Studios Studio Tour could watch stuntmen perform a western-themed stunt show and shootout. By 1970, the stage was completed and three old west facades were constructed for the show, the arena was completed in 1971. Because it was empty at night, a studio tour guide suggested that the arena be used to hold rock concerts. On June 28,1972, the venue hosted its first concert, the show was a hit and was extended until cold weather forced its closure. During these early years, the stunt show was performed during the day while at night the venue hosted concerts, the theatre proved to be so popular that it regularly filled up to 98% capacity. After only one year, the studio expanded it to seat 5,200 patrons, in 1980, the venue closed for two years for a major renovation. During this time, a roof was constructed to allow for entertainment, acoustics were improved. In May 1993, Universal added the Universal CityWalk shopping and dining district and this allowed patrons to eat and drink before and after concerts. The amphitheatre was best known for its acoustics and its sightlines, on December 6,2011, it was announced that Gibson Amphitheatre would close and would be demolished to make way for The Wizarding World of Harry Potter theme park area at Universal Studios Hollywood. Although the venue had events scheduled until October 2013, it closed in September of that year. The final performance held at the Gibson Amphitheatre was Pepe Aguilar on September 6th,2013, at the time of its closure, it was the third largest mid-sized venue in California, behind Nokia Theatre and the Shrine Auditorium - two other Los Angeles venues. The amphitheatre was demolished on September 25,2013, list of contemporary amphitheatres Gibson Amphitheatre on Live Nation Gibson Amphitheatre Home movies showing the arena with the original Wild West stunt show in 1971

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Universal City, California
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Universal City is an unincorporated area within the San Fernando Valley region of Los Angeles County, California, United States. This 70 percent portion of the property remains unincorporated to avoid the City of Los Angeles business taxes, located within the area of Universal City is the Universal Studios Hollywood film studio and theme park and the Universal CityWalk shopping and entertainment center. Within the Los Angeles city limits are 10 Universal City Plaza, a 36-floor office building for Universal and NBC, the Sheraton Universal, the Metro Red Line underground station of the same name is located opposite the 10 Universal Plaza. A Los Angeles County Sheriffs Department station is located at Universal CityWalk, the Los Angeles County Fire Department Station 51 is of special significance to Universal, as Station 51 was the fictional setting of the Universal and Jack Webb television series Emergency. Universal Citys ZIP code is 91608, and the community is inside area code 818, Carl Laemmle officially opened the Second Universal City on March 15,1915, on the 230-acre Taylor Ranch property. See how slapstick comedies are made, see your favorite screen stars do their work. See how we make the people laugh or cry or sit on the edge of their chairs the world over, stated a poster touting Universals opening. Universal Pictures founder was a German immigrant who opened his first nickelodeon in Chicago in 1906 and he moved to New York City, where he soon joined with half a dozen small motion picture companies to create the movie company he called Universal Pictures. In 1912, Laemmle briefly operated three small studios - Bison, Nestor, and Oak Crest Ranch, after a court battle with New York Motion Picture Company, control of the Bison lot was returned to the New York Motion Picture Company. The court allowed Carl Laemmle to retain use of the name Bison as Bison 101 for his westerns, the Oak Crest Ranch is where Laemmle filmed the western At Old Fort Dearborn. The Providencia Land and Water company, called Oak Crest Ranch in the trade papers, in 1913, Laemmle decided to consolidate the Nestor studio and Oak Crest ranch property. His first Universal City was too small, so he ordered a search for a new and larger property in the valley, Laemmle leased Providencia ranchland in the San Fernando Valley in 1912. Other studio chiefs laughed, calling the place Laemmles Folly and jeering that it was so far out of town that Laemmle could film scenery for free anywhere he wanted, Laemmle himself had second thoughts and worried that maybe he had made a huge mistake. But he was to live his greatest dreams. Success was found all around with his city containing streets, bungalows, sets, in the meantime, Laemmle added a zoo to the Oak Crest Ranch – which was open to visitors to generate free advertising by word of mouth. The Rotarians of Los Angeles were one of the groups permitted to visit the Oak Crest - Universal City. The Oak Crest ranch being too small for his larger Universal City, Laemmle bought the Lankershim Land and Water property, in 1914, operations at The Oak Ranch were moved to the Taylor ranch. The Universal ranch zoo was moved to the Back Ranch of the Lankershim property, the new Universal City was opened for Universal staff in 1914

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Pauley Pavilion
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Edwin W. Pauley Pavilion, commonly known as Pauley Pavilion, is an indoor arena located in the Westwood Village district of Los Angeles, California, on the campus of UCLA. It is home to the UCLA Bruins mens and womens basketball teams, the mens and womens volleyball and womens gymnastics teams also compete here. The building, designed by architect Welton Becket, was dedicated in June 1965, named for University of California Regent Edwin W. Pauley, Pauley donated almost one fifth of the more than $5 million spent in constructing the arena. The arena was renovated in 2010-12 and was reopened on November 9,2012 when it hosted a basketball game against Indiana State. Pauley Pavilion contains 11,307 permanent theater-style upholstered seats, plus retractable seats for 2,492 spectators, the capacity prior to the renovation had been exceeded several times for several mens basketball games by adding portable seating alongside the retractable seats. The Bruins reopened the newly renovated Pauley Pavilion on November 9,2012 in front of a crowd of 13,513. Then a new record was set when 13,727 fans watched the Bruins defeat the Arizona Wildcats 74–69 on March 2,2013, when the floor seats are retracted, there is space for three full-sized basketball courts. These courts are used for practice, intramural games. It can also serve as a hall or large dining area when in this configuration. When used for volleyball, the basketball court is striped with colored tape. The volleyball net is erected at the court line. The womens team uses blue and yellow Sport Court lined up perpendicularly to the basketball court tucked up to the east end of the court, there is a tunnel on the south side through which trucks and service vehicles may enter. This is also the entrance for players, performers. The floor is called Nell and John Wooden Court in honor of former UCLA Mens Basketball Coach John Wooden, from the opening of the building until 1987, the extra press not involved in the radio or television broadcasts sat behind the south side press table. The working press then moved to sit courtside at press row on the side of the court, as the south courtside seats were opened up to influential. In 2003, the UCLA Athletic Department made available north side courtside seats to affluent donors, the media now sit higher up in permanent seating dead-center in the north side of the bleachers. The press move to the side in 1987 was as controversial as the 2003 move, in that the student section was now behind the press table. The student section has moved several times as well, since 2003, the student section of 1,750 seats occupies the north side bleachers

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UCLA
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The University of California, Los Angeles is a public research university in the Westwood district of Los Angeles, California, United States. It became the Southern Branch of the University of California in 1919 and it offers 337 undergraduate and graduate degree programs in a wide range of disciplines. UCLA enrolls about 31,000 undergraduate and 13,000 graduate students, and had 119,000 applicants for Fall 2016, including transfer applicants, the university is organized into six undergraduate colleges, seven professional schools, and four professional health science schools. Fourteen Nobel laureates, three Fields Medalists, two Chief Scientists of the U. S. Air Force and three Turing Award winners have been faculty, researchers, or alumni, the university was elected to the Association of American Universities in 1974. The Times Higher Education World University Rankings for 2015–2016 ranked UCLA 16th in the world for academics, in 2015-2016, UCLA ranked 12th in the world by the Academic Ranking of World Universities and 31st in the 2016/17 QS World University Rankings. UCLA student-athletes compete as the Bruins in the Pac-12 Conference, the Bruins won 126 national championships, including 113 NCAA team championships, more than any other university. UCLA student-athletes, coaches and staff won 251 Olympic medals,126 gold,65 silver and 60 bronze, UCLA student-athletes competed in every Olympics since 1920 with one exception, and won a gold medal in every Olympics that the United States participated in since 1932. The State Normal School at Los Angeles opened on August 29,1882, the facility included an elementary school where teachers-in-training could practice their technique with children. That elementary school is related to the present day version, UCLA Lab School, in 1887, the school became known as the Los Angeles State Normal School. In 1914, the moved to a new campus on Vermont Avenue in East Hollywood. However, David Prescott Barrows, the new President of the University of California, the same legislation added its general undergraduate program, the College of Letters and Science. After the athletic teams entered the Pacific Coast conference in 1926, the Southern Branch student council adopted the nickname Bruins, in 1927, the Regents renamed the Southern Branch the University of California at Los Angeles. In the same year, the state broke ground in Westwood on land sold for $1 million, less than one-third its value, by real estate developers Edwin and Harold Janss, the campus in Westwood opened to students in 1929. The original four buildings were the College Library, Royce Hall, the Physics-Biology Building, the first undergraduate classes on the new campus were held in 1929 with 5,500 students. A timeline of the history can be found on its website, during its first 32 years, UCLA was treated as an off-site department of UC. As such, its presiding officer was called a provost, in 1951, UCLA was formally elevated to co-equal status with UC Berkeley, and its presiding officer Raymond B. Allen was the first chief executive to be granted the title of chancellor. The appointment of Franklin David Murphy to the position of Chancellor in 1960 helped spark an era of growth of facilities. By the end of the decade, UCLA had achieved distinction in a range of subjects

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Westwood, Los Angeles
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Westwood is a commercial and residential neighborhood in the northern central portion of the Westside region of Los Angeles, California. It is the home of the University of California, Los Angeles, the 2000 census found the forty-seven thousand people living in the neighborhood were generally young and moderately diverse ethnically, with a generally high level of income and education. The neighborhood was developed after 1919, with a new campus of the University of California opened in 1926, other attractions besides the UCLA campus include Westwood Village, with its historic motion picture theaters, restaurants and shopping, Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery and the Hammer Museum. Holmby Hills is considered one of the wealthiest residential areas in Los Angeles, a Mormon temple is also prominent. There are several schools and one middle school in the neighborhood. The 2010 U. S. census counted 47,916 residents in the 3. 68-square-mile Westwood neighborhood—or 13,036 people per square mile, in 2008, the city estimated that the population had increased to 52,041. The median age for residents was 27, considered young for the city, the neighborhood was considered moderately diverse ethnically, with a high percentage of Asians and of whites. The breakdown was whites,62. 9%, Asians,23. 1%, Latinos,7. 0%, blacks,2. 0%, and others,4. 9%. Iran and Taiwan were the most common places of birth for the 31. 3% of the residents who were born abroad—about the same percentage as in the city at large, the median yearly household income in 2008 dollars was $68,716, a high figure for Los Angeles. The percentages of households that earned $125,000 yearly and higher or that earned $20,000 or less were high for Los Angeles County, the average household size of two people was low for Los Angeles. Renters occupied 64. 1% of the stock and house- or apartment owners held 35. 9%. The percentages of never-married men and women were among the countys highest, in 2000 there were 309 families headed by single parents, a low percentage for the city. Five percent of the population had served in the military, a low figure for both the city and the county, the southern portion of Holmby Hills is also part of the Westwood district. Upon Arthur Letts death, his son-in-law, Harold Janss, vice president of Janss Investment Company, inherited the land and developed the area and started advertising for new homes in 1922. The tract comprises approximately 1000 residential and business lots, situated west of the Los Angeles Country Club on Santa Monica Boulevard, the selection of a new campus in the Westwood hills was announced on March 21,1925. The owners of the estate, the Janss brothers, agreed to sell the property for approximately $1 million, municipal bond measures passed by Los Angeles, Santa Monica, Beverly Hills and Venice provided for that amount. Proposition 10, a bond measure passed that year, provided $3 million for new campus construction. Thus the predecessor of the University of California, Los Angeles, was established in Westwood and her killer, Durrell DeWitt Collins,23, was sentenced to two concurrent terms of 27 years to life in prison

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Shrine Auditorium
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The Shrine Auditorium is a landmark large-event venue in Los Angeles, California. It is also the headquarters of the Al Malaikah Temple, a division of the Shriners and it was designated a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument in 1975. Opened in 1926, the current Shrine Auditorium replaced an earlier 1906 Al Malaikah Temple which had destroyed by a fire on January 11,1920. The fire gutted the building in just 30 minutes. The new auditorium was designed in the Moorish Revival style by San Francisco-based theater architect G. Albert Lansburgh, with local architects John C. Austin, when built, the auditorium could hold 1,200 people on stage and seat an audience of 6,442. An engineer who consulted on the said that the steel truss supporting the balcony was the largest ever constructed. The entire complex follows a Moroccan architectural motif, the Shrine Auditorium seats approximately 6,300 people and has a stage 194 feet wide and 69 feet deep. The Auditorium features two boxes above the orchestra level holding 40 people each and seven loges on the balcony holding between 36 and 47 seats each, of the remaining seats,2,964 are on the orchestra level and 2,982 on the balcony level. The Shrine Auditorium has hosted a number of events, mainly for entertainment, the Academy Awards were held at the Shrine from 1947 to 1948 and eight times between 1988 and 2001 until it moved to the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood. The Shrine hosted several Grammy ceremonies until 2000 when the Grammys moved to the nearby Staples Center, the Primetime Emmy Awards were also held at the venue for a decade beginning in 1998. However, the Primetime ceremony moved to the nearby Microsoft Theater, for 33 years, the Shrine Auditorium was home to the University of Southern California Trojans basketball team. The Trojans home court was on the Shrines stage, the Los Angeles Lakers also briefly played some playoff games in the theatre, when the nearby Los Angeles Sports Arena was unavailable. The Shrine Circus, concerts, stage shows and other events are held here. The Shrine Auditorium was also the venue for the 55th Miss Universe beauty pageant, the 1933 movie King Kong filmed the audience in the Shrine Auditorium for the scenes where Kong was displayed manacled on stage. In 1953, segments of Judy Garlands movie classic A Star Is Born were filmed at the Shrine, in 1955, The Great Shrine Auditorium Concert took place, which is considered a major event in the histories of both American gospel and secular music. The event also featured a young Sam Cooke who was at the time performing with the gospel group The Soul Stirrers. Ray Charles recorded his landmark Live in Concert album at the Shrine in 1964, in the late 1960s, the Shrine was referred to as The Pinnacle by the audiences of rock concerts. On August 24,1968, The Grateful Dead performed there and recorded their show, on January 24,1975, Genesis, then led by singer Peter Gabriel, gave a live performance of the conceptual progressive rock show, The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway at the Shrine

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Los Angeles
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Los Angeles, officially the City of Los Angeles and often known by its initials L. A. is the cultural, financial, and commercial center of Southern California. With a census-estimated 2015 population of 3,971,883, it is the second-most populous city in the United States, Los Angeles is also the seat of Los Angeles County, the most populated county in the United States. The citys inhabitants are referred to as Angelenos, historically home to the Chumash and Tongva, Los Angeles was claimed by Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo for Spain in 1542 along with the rest of what would become Alta California. The city was founded on September 4,1781, by Spanish governor Felipe de Neve. It became a part of Mexico in 1821 following the Mexican War of Independence, in 1848, at the end of the Mexican–American War, Los Angeles and the rest of California were purchased as part of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, thereby becoming part of the United States. Los Angeles was incorporated as a municipality on April 4,1850, the discovery of oil in the 1890s brought rapid growth to the city. The completion of the Los Angeles Aqueduct in 1913, delivering water from Eastern California, nicknamed the City of Angels, Los Angeles is known for its Mediterranean climate, ethnic diversity, and sprawling metropolis. Los Angeles also has an economy in culture, media, fashion, science, sports, technology, education, medicine. A global city, it has been ranked 6th in the Global Cities Index, the city is home to renowned institutions covering a broad range of professional and cultural fields, and is one of the most substantial economic engines within the United States. The Los Angeles combined statistical area has a gross metropolitan product of $831 billion, making it the third-largest in the world, after the Greater Tokyo and New York metropolitan areas. The city has hosted the Summer Olympic Games in 1932 and 1984 and is bidding to host the 2024 Summer Olympics and thus become the second city after London to have hosted the Games three times. The Los Angeles area also hosted the 1994 FIFA mens World Cup final match as well as the 1999 FIFA womens World Cup final match, the mens event was watched on television by over 700 million people worldwide. The Los Angeles coastal area was first settled by the Tongva, a Gabrielino settlement in the area was called iyáangẚ, meaning poison oak place. Gaspar de Portolà and Franciscan missionary Juan Crespí, reached the present site of Los Angeles on August 2,1769, in 1771, Franciscan friar Junípero Serra directed the building of the Mission San Gabriel Arcángel, the first mission in the area. The Queen of the Angels is an honorific of the Virgin Mary, two-thirds of the settlers were mestizo or mulatto with a mixture of African, indigenous and European ancestry. The settlement remained a small town for decades, but by 1820. Today, the pueblo is commemorated in the district of Los Angeles Pueblo Plaza and Olvera Street. New Spain achieved its independence from the Spanish Empire in 1821, during Mexican rule, Governor Pío Pico made Los Angeles Alta Californias regional capital

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Galen Center
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The Galen Center is a multipurpose indoor arena and athletic facility owned and operated by the University of Southern California. The architectural firm behind the design of the Galen Center is HNTB, in addition to basketball and volleyball events, the Galen Center hosts concerts, pageants and theatrical performances. Local high school graduation ceremonies as well as CIF championships and the Academic Decathlon are held at the Galen Center, the annual Kids Choice Awards were held here from 2011 to 2014, and will return for 2017. USC had planned to build an indoor arena for more than 100 years. Previously, the USC mens and womens basketball teams practiced at the smaller, the Galen Center replaced the Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena as the home for USC mens and womens basketball. Galen Center construction cost an estimated $147 million, which includes the arena, team offices, the largest tax revenue would be generated by the city of Los Angeles 10% parking tax. Other sources of tax revenue will include sales tax, utility tax, business license tax. The additional parking structures also increased the available parking for both the USC campus and the nearby Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, the first event, a womens volleyball game between USC and Stanford University, took place on October 12,2006. The first concert at the center was October 21,2006, the first mens basketball was held on November 16 against the University of South Carolina. The first sellout crowd was the basketball game against the UCLA Bruins on January 12,2007 with an attendance of 9,682. The highest attendance in the first year was for the Cal Bears mens basketball game on February 24,2007 at 10,027. On January 31,2008 the USC mens basketball game against the Arizona Wildcats set the attendance record with crowd of 10,258 in attendance. On May 10,2014 the arena hosted a heavyweight title boxing fight between Chris Arreola and Bermane Stiverne for the vacant World Boxing Council Heavyweight Title. The Galen Centers basketball court was named after former USC basketball player Jim Sterkel, B. Wayne Hughes, a longtime friend of Sterkels made the $5 million donation under the agreement that his name never be revealed. Anonymous later hired Sterkel and helped pay for his treatment when Sterkel was diagnosed with cancer, when the son of the anonymous donor contracted leukemia, Sterkel wrote a poem and sealed it to be read only when the son had died. Sterkel later died in 1997, with the son dying two years later, inspired by the poem and his friendship with Sterkel, Anonymous made the donation and named the court after his friend, saying, Some people dont deserve to be forgotten. The facility is 255,000 square feet, with a 45,000 square feet pavilion, the seating capacity is 10,258, and there are 22 private suites. The rights to purchase tickets for approximately ⅓ of the seats are being sold through lifetime personal seat licenses, ranging from $2, taiwanese singer Jay Chou held his first concert on December 24,2007 for his World Tour 2007

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The Forum (Inglewood, California)
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The Forum is a multi-purpose indoor arena in Inglewood, California, adjacent to Los Angeles. Located between West Manchester Boulevard, across Pincay Drive and Kareem Court, it is north of the under-construction Los Angeles Stadium at Hollywood Park and it is about three miles east of Los Angeles International Airport. Opening on December 30,1967, the Forum was an unusual, architect Charles Luckmans vision was brought to life by engineers Carl Johnson and Svend Nielsen, who were able to engineer the structure so that it had no major support pillars. This had previously been unheard of in an arena the size of the Forum. The arena is visible on the approach to the airport from the east. With Madison Square Garden, it was one of the best-known indoor sports venues in the U. S. The Forum was also the home of the WNBAs Los Angeles Sparks from 1997 to their 2001 move to Staples Center. It was acquired in 2000 by the Faithful Central Bible Church, on September 24,2014, the Forum was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The arena is known as The Forum Presented by Chase. It is also informally as the L. A. Forum. On the site of a golf course, the fabulous Forum was built in 1967 by Jack Kent Cooke. The Canadian Cooke, who enjoyed ice hockey, was determined to bring the NHL to Los Angeles, in 1966, the league announced that it was selling six new franchises, and Cooke prepared a bid. In response, Cooke planned to build a new arena in the Los Angeles suburb of Inglewood, the Canadian won the franchise, paying $2 million for the Los Angeles club, which he called the Kings. According to Springer, Cooke went to Inglewood and built the Forum, the round, $16-million building was designed by Los Angeles architect Charles Luckman to evoke the Roman Forum. The arena seats 17,505 for basketball,16,005 for hockey and up to 18,000 for musical concerts, although it has no luxury suites, it had 2,400 club seats for events. More than 70% of the seats are between the goals, and no seat is more than 170 feet from the playing surface, the Forum became a landmark in the greater Los Angeles area, largely due to the Lakers success and the Hollywood celebrities often seen there. It hosted tennis matches, music concerts, boxing matches and U. S. political events, the arena is sometimes called the Los Angeles Forum or the L. A. Forum to distinguish it from places with the name Forum

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Jennifer Love Hewitt
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Jennifer Love Hewitt is an American actress, television producer and director, singer/songwriter and author. Hewitt began her career as a child by appearing in television commercials. She rose to fame for her role as Sarah Reeves Merrin on the Fox teen drama Party of Five and she later starred in the horror film I Know What You Did Last Summer and its 1998 sequel. From 2005 to 2010, Hewitt starred as Melinda Gordon on the CBS supernatural drama Ghost Whisperer and she later starred on the Lifetime drama series The Client List from 2012 to 2013, and was previously nominated for a Golden Globe Award for the pilot film. From 2014 to 2015, she starred as Special Agent Kate Callahan on the CBS crime drama Criminal Minds, in addition to acting, she has served as a producer on some of her film and television projects. As a singer, Hewitt has been signed by Atlantic Records and Jive Records and she has released four studio albums, including Love Songs, Lets Go Bang, Jennifer Love Hewitt and BareNaked. Her most successful single on the Billboard Hot 100 is the 1999 release How Do I Deal and she has also contributed music to the promotion or soundtracks of acting projects. Hewitt was identified as the number one choice on the November 1999. TV Guide named her the sexiest woman on television in 2008, Hewitt was born in Waco, Texas, to Patricia Mae, a speech-language pathologist, and Herbert Daniel Hewitt, a medical technician. Hewitt grew up in Nolanville, in Central Texas, and has close ties in parts of Arkansas. After their parents divorced, Hewitt and her older brother Todd were raised by their mother, Patricia Mae Hewitt died on June 12,2012, aged 67, following a battle with cancer. As a young girl, Hewitt was attracted to music, which led to her first encounters with the entertainment industry, at the age of three, she sang The Greatest Love of All at a livestock show. The following year, at a hall, she entertained an audience with her version of Help Me Make it Through the Night. By age five, she had tap dancing and ballet in her portfolio, at nine, she became a member of the Texas Show Team. In Los Angeles, she attended Lincoln High School where her classmates included Jonathan Neville, after moving to Los Angeles, Hewitt appeared in more than twenty television commercials, including some for Mattel toys. Her first break came as an actor on the Disney Channel variety show Kids Incorporated. She later appeared in the action video short Dance. Workout with Barbie, released by Buena Vista and she played Pierce Brosnans daughter in a pilot for NBC called Running Wilde, which featured Brosnan as a reporter for Auto World magazine, whose stories cover his own wild auto adventures

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Marlon Wayans
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Marlon Lamont Wayans is an American actor, comedian, screenwriter, and film producer, beginning with his role as a pedestrian in Im Gonna Git You Sucka in 1988. He frequently collaborates with his brother Shawn Wayans, as he was on The WB sitcom The Wayans Bros. and in the comedic films Scary Movie, Scary Movie 2, White Chicks, Little Man, and Dance Flick. However, Wayans had a role in Darren Aronofskys critically acclaimed Requiem for a Dream. In 2009, he appeared in G. I, in 2013, he had a leading role in A Haunted House and co-starred in The Heat. A Haunted House 2 was released on April 18,2014, Marlon has partnered with former Funny or Die co-founder Randy Adams to create What the Funny, an online destination for urban comedy. Marlon created the comedy television show, Funniest Wins, which aired on TBS in June - August 2014. As of 2014, Marlon and his brothers have been traveling the U. S. with The Wayans Brothers Tour, in 2016, Wayans wrote, produced and starred in Fifty Shades of Black. The film is a parody of the 2015 erotic romantic drama film Fifty Shades of Grey, Wayans was born in New York City, the son of Elvira Alethia, a homemaker and social worker, and Howell Stouten Wayans, a supermarket manager. His family was involved religiously with Jehovahs Witnesses, Wayans was raised in the housing projects of New York City, the youngest of ten siblings. He is the brother of Nadia Wayans, Shawn Wayans, Keenen Ivory Wayans, Damon Wayans, Sr. Dwayne Wayans, Wayans went to Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts in New York City, the school made famous in Fame. After completing high school, he attended Howard University in Washington, Marlon appeared with his siblings on In Living Color between 1992 and 1993. From 1995 until 1999, Wayans co-starred in the WB sitcom The Wayans Bros. with brother Shawn Wayans. Wayans was originally considered for the role of Robin in the 1992 film Batman Returns, however it was felt that the film featured too many characters and he was replaced by Chris ODonnell. He produced the first two films of the Scary Movie series, in which he and Shawn were credited writers and co-stars and those films were released in 2000 and 2001. In 2000 he appeared as Tyrone C, love in Requiem for a Dream and as Snails in Dungeons & Dragons. That same year he and his brother Shawn hosted the 2000 MTV Video Music Awards, Wayans produced the Nickelodeon cartoon series Thugaboo. Wayans has been married to Angelica Zachary since 2005 and they have two children, Shawn Howell Wayans and Amai Zackary Wayans. Marlon Wayans at the Internet Movie Database Marlon Wayans at AllMovie Marlon Wayans on Twitter

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Hugh Jackman
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Hugh Michael Jackman is an Australian actor, singer, and producer. Jackman has won recognition for his roles in a variety of film genres. His work in Les Misérables earned him his first Academy Award nomination for Best Actor, in Broadway theatre, Jackman won a Tony Award for his role in The Boy from Oz. A four-time host of the Tony Awards themselves, he won an Emmy Award for one of these appearances, Jackman also hosted the 81st Academy Awards on 22 February 2009. Jackman was born in Sydney, New South Wales, to Grace McNeil and Christopher John Jackman and his parents were English and had come to Australia in 1967 as part of the Ten Pound Poms immigration. One of his paternal great-grandfathers, Nicholas Isidor Bellas, was Greek and his parents were devout Christians, having been converted by Evangelist Billy Graham after their marriage. Jackman has four siblings, and was the second of his parents children to be born in Australia. He also has a younger half-sister, from his mothers remarriage and his parents divorced when he was eight, and Jackman remained in Australia with his father and Jackmans two brothers, while his mother moved back to England with Jackmans two sisters. As a child, Jackman liked the outdoors, spending a lot of time at the beach and on camping trips and he wanted to see the world, I used to spend nights looking at atlases. I decided I wanted to be a chef on a plane, because Id been on a plane and there was food on board, I presumed there was a chef. I thought that would be an ideal job, following graduation, he spent a gap year working at Uppingham School in England. On his return, he studied at the University of Technology, Sydney, in his final year of university, he took a drama course to make up additional credits. The class did Václav Havels The Memorandum with Jackman as the lead and he later commented, In that week I felt more at home with those people than I did in the entire three years. After obtaining his BA, Jackman completed the one-year course The Journey at the Actors Centre in Sydney, about studying acting full-time, he stated, It wasnt until I was 22 that I ever thought about my hobby being something I could make a living out of. As a boy, Id always had an interest in theatre, but the idea at my school was that drama and music were to round out the man. It wasnt what one did for a living, I found the courage to stand up and say, I want to do it. Jackman has said he always loved acting but when I started at drama school I was like the dunce of the class and it just wasnt coming right to me. Everyone was cooler, everyone seemed more likely to succeed, everyone seemed more natural at it, I think it is good to come from behind as an actor

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Barker Hangar
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Santa Monica Airport is a general aviation airport largely in Santa Monica, California. The airport is about 2 miles from the Pacific Ocean and 6 miles north of LAX, the FAAs National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2009–2013 categorized it as a reliever airport. The airport will open until 2029. Originally Clover Field, after World War I aviator 2nd lieutenant Greayer Grubby Clover, cloverfield Boulevard—which confuses the fields naming for a crop of green rather than a fallen soldier—is a remnant of the airports original name. Clover Field was once the site of the Armys 40th Division Aviation, 115th Observation Squadron, Douglas Aircraft Company was headquartered adjacent to Clover Field. Among other important aircraft built there, Douglas manufactured the entire Douglas Commercial DC series of reciprocating-engine-powered airliners, DC-1, DC-2, DC-3, DC-4, DC-5, DC-6, and DC-7. In 1958, Donald Douglas asked the city to lengthen the runway so that Douglas Aircraft could produce. The city, bowing to objections of residents, refused to do so, the airport has a control tower and, on average, handled 296 operations a day. More recently, traffic has been decreasing to 83,381 annual operations in 2014, the following procedures and limitations are enforced in accordance with the City’s Aircraft Noise Ordinance. There are no additional noise monitoring stations along the flight pattern, night Departure Curfew – No takeoffs or engine starts are permitted between 11 pm and 7 am Monday through Friday, or until 8 am on weekends. Exceptions are allowed for bona fide medical or public safety emergencies only, operational Limitations – Touch-and-go, stop-and-go, and low approaches are prohibited on weekends, holidays, and weekdays from one half-hour after sunset until 7 am the following day. The aviation aspects of operations at the Santa Monica Airport. The City is jurisdictionally preempted by federal law from establishing or enforcing new local laws that would affect operations or the use of airspace around the Santa Monica Airport. Typhoon is the restaurant on the airport property with a runway view. The former restaurant The Hump was closed in 2010 after its chef, the Museum of Flying at the airport houses a collection of historic aircraft. A new facility was built on the South side of the airport and is now open, one of the airports oldest buildings, next to the restored Douglas DC-3, hosts the U. S. Civil Air Patrols Clover Field Composite Squadron 51. Since the Santa Monica Airport receives no federal, state or local funding to operate, on April 13,2013 the rates were approved for increase to $5.48 per 1,000 pounds of Maximum Certificated Gross Landing Weight. Airport Park opened as an 8. 3-acre public park on non-aviation lands at the southeast corner of the Airport, the park features a synthetic turf soccer field, open green space and an off-leash dog area

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California
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California is the most populous state in the United States and the third most extensive by area. Located on the western coast of the U. S, California is bordered by the other U. S. states of Oregon, Nevada, and Arizona and shares an international border with the Mexican state of Baja California. Los Angeles is Californias most populous city, and the second largest after New York City. The Los Angeles Area and the San Francisco Bay Area are the nations second- and fifth-most populous urban regions, California also has the nations most populous county, Los Angeles County, and its largest county by area, San Bernardino County. The Central Valley, an agricultural area, dominates the states center. What is now California was first settled by various Native American tribes before being explored by a number of European expeditions during the 16th and 17th centuries, the Spanish Empire then claimed it as part of Alta California in their New Spain colony. The area became a part of Mexico in 1821 following its war for independence. The western portion of Alta California then was organized as the State of California, the California Gold Rush starting in 1848 led to dramatic social and demographic changes, with large-scale emigration from the east and abroad with an accompanying economic boom. If it were a country, California would be the 6th largest economy in the world, fifty-eight percent of the states economy is centered on finance, government, real estate services, technology, and professional, scientific and technical business services. Although it accounts for only 1.5 percent of the states economy, the story of Calafia is recorded in a 1510 work The Adventures of Esplandián, written as a sequel to Amadis de Gaula by Spanish adventure writer Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo. The kingdom of Queen Calafia, according to Montalvo, was said to be a land inhabited by griffins and other strange beasts. This conventional wisdom that California was an island, with maps drawn to reflect this belief, shortened forms of the states name include CA, Cal. Calif. and US-CA. Settled by successive waves of arrivals during the last 10,000 years, various estimates of the native population range from 100,000 to 300,000. The Indigenous peoples of California included more than 70 distinct groups of Native Americans, ranging from large, settled populations living on the coast to groups in the interior. California groups also were diverse in their organization with bands, tribes, villages. Trade, intermarriage and military alliances fostered many social and economic relationships among the diverse groups, the first European effort to explore the coast as far north as the Russian River was a Spanish sailing expedition, led by Portuguese captain Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo, in 1542. Some 37 years later English explorer Francis Drake also explored and claimed a portion of the California coast in 1579. Spanish traders made unintended visits with the Manila galleons on their trips from the Philippines beginning in 1565

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Britney Spears
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Britney Jean Spears is an American singer, dancer, and actress. Born in McComb, Mississippi, and raised in Kentwood, Louisiana, she performed acting roles in stage productions, Spearss first and second studio albums. Baby One More Time and Oops. I Did It Again, became international successes, with the former becoming the album by a teenage solo artist. Title tracks. Baby One More Time and Oops, I Did It Again broke international sales records. In 2001, Spears released her third studio album, Britney. She assumed creative control of her studio album, In the Zone. In 2007, Spearss much-publicized personal issues sent her career into hiatus and her fifth studio album, Blackout, was released later that year, and spawned singles such as Gimme More and Piece of Me. Her erratic behavior and hospitalizations continued through the year, at which point she was placed under a still ongoing conservatorship. Spearss sixth studio album, Circus, included the international chart-topping single Womanizer and her seventh studio album, Femme Fatale, became her first to yield three top-ten singles in the United States. She released her studio album Britney Jean in 2013. Later that year, Spears began the four-year residency show, Britney, Piece of Me, in 2016, Spears released her ninth studio album, Glory. In 2017, she announced that her show would develop into a world tour, Britney. Spears is regarded as a pop icon and credited with influencing the revival of teen pop during the late 1990s and she became the best-selling teenage artist of all time and garnered honorific titles including the Princess of Pop. In 2009, Billboard ranked her as the 8th overall Artist of the Decade, the Recording Industry Association of America lists Spears as the eighth top-selling female artist in the United States, with 34 million certified albums. She has sold 100 million albums and over 100 million singles worldwide making her one of the music artists of all time. According to Billboard Spears has sold about 22.38 million singles in digital downloads in US and is the fourth best-selling female artist since Nielsen SoundScan began. Forbes reported that Spears was the highest paid musician of 2012, with earnings of $58 million. Spears was born in McComb, Mississippi, the child of Lynne Irene Bridges and James Parnell Spears

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Christina Aguilera
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Christina María Aguilera is an American singer, songwriter, actress and television personality. Born in Staten Island, New York and raised in Rochester and Wexford, Pennsylvania, she appeared on the television series Star Search, after recording Reflection, the theme for Disneys 1998 film Mulan, Aguilera signed with RCA Records. She rose to prominence with her 1999 self-titled debut album spawned the Billboard Hot 100 number one singles, Genie in a Bottle, What a Girl Wants. The following year, Aguilera released two albums, the Spanish-language album Mi Reflejo and the holiday album My Kind of Christmas. She assumed creative control for her studio album, Stripped, which produced Dirrty, Beautiful. Aguileras fifth studio album, Back to Basics, debuted at one on the album charts of ten countries and spawned the tracks Aint No Other Man. In 2010, Aguilera released her studio album Bionic and starred in the film Burlesque. The following year, she debuted as a coach on the reality television series The Voice. Her seventh studio album, Lotus, was released in 2012, Aguilera has also been featured on several successful collaborations during her career, including Lady Marmalade, Moves like Jagger, and Say Something. Aguilera has been recognized as a pop icon and earned the title Pop Princess in her early years and her work has earned her five Grammy Awards, one Latin Grammy Award, and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. She has sold over 17.9 million albums in the United States as of 2014 and 50 million albums worldwide as of 2015. In 2009, she ranked at number 58 on Rolling Stones list of 100 Greatest Singers of All Time, thereby becoming the youngest and the only artist under 30 to be named. Billboard recognized her as the 20th most successful artist of the 2000s, aside from her work in the entertainment industry, Aguilera is involved in charitable activities through human rights, world issues, and her work as a UN ambassador for the World Food Programme. Christina María Aguilera was born in Staten Island, New York, on December 18,1980, to Shelly Loraine, a musician, and Fausto Xavier Aguilera and her father is Ecuadorian, while her mother has German, Irish, Welsh, and Dutch ancestry. Her family moved frequently because of her fathers service, and lived in places including New Jersey, Texas, New York. Aguilera and her mother alleged that her father was physically and emotionally abusive, claims which he denied, Aguilera used music as a form of escape from her turbulent household. Following her parents divorce when she was six years old, Aguilera, her younger sister Rachel, after several years of being estranged, Aguilera expressed interest in reconciling with her father in 2012. Growing up, Aguilera, known locally as the girl with the big voice, aspired to be a singer, singing in local talent shows

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Blink-182
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Blink-182 is an American rock band formed in Poway, California in 1992. The band currently consists of bassist and vocalist Mark Hoppus, drummer Travis Barker, Blink-182 was initially known as Blink until an Irish band of the same name threatened legal action, in response, the band appended the meaningless number -182. In its early years, Blink-182 toured heavily behind the bands debut, the group signed with major label MCA Records to co-distribute its second album, Dude Ranch. Raynor was fired midway through a 1998 tour and replaced by Barker, the groups next two releases, Enema of the State and Take Off Your Pants and Jacket, were enormous successes on the strength of radio and MTV airplay. The eponymously titled Blink-182 followed in 2003 and marked a shift for the group. DeLonge quit in 2005, sending the band into what was termed an indefinite hiatus and they reunited in 2009, producing the trios sixth album, Neighborhoods. In 2015, DeLonge again exited and was replaced by Alkaline Trio guitarist and vocalist Matt Skiba, the bands seventh studio album, California, was released on July 1,2016. Blink-182 is considered a key group in the development of pop punk, the trio has sold over thirteen million albums in the United States, and over 50 million albums worldwide. Blink-182 was formed in Poway, California, a suburb outside of San Diego, tom DeLonge was expelled from Poway High for attending a basketball game drunk and was forced to attend another local school for one semester. At Rancho Bernardo High School, DeLonge performed at a Battle of the Bands competition and he also befriended Kerry Key, who too was interested in punk music. Keys girlfriend, Anne Hoppus, introduced her brother Mark Hoppus—who had recently moved from Ridgecrest to work at a record store, the two clicked instantly and played for hours in DeLonges garage, exchanging lyrics and co-writing songs—one of which became Carousel. Hoppus, in trying to impress Delonge, managed to fall from a lamppost in front of DeLonges garage and crack his ankles, the trio began to practice together in Raynors bedroom, spending hours together writing music, attending punk shows and movies, and playing practical jokes. Hoppus and DeLonge would alternate singing vocal parts, the trio first operated under a variety of names, including Duck Tape and Figure 8, until DeLonge rechristened the band Blink. Shortly thereafter, DeLonge and Raynor borrowed a four-track recorder from friend and collaborator Cam Jones and were preparing to record a demo tape, Hoppus promptly broke up with his girlfriend and returned to the band. Flyswatter—a combination of songs and punk covers—was recorded in Raynors bedroom in May 1993. Southern California had a large population in the early 1990s, aided by an avid surfing, skating. In contrast to East Coast punk music, the West Coast wave of groups, Blink included, New York is gloomy, dark and cold. The Californian middle-class suburbs have nothing to be that bummed about, San Diego at this time was hardly a hotbed of activity, but the bands popularity grew as did California punk rock concurrently in the mainstream

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NSYNC
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NSYNC was an American boy band formed in Orlando, Florida in 1995 and launched in Germany by BMG Ariola Munich. NSYNC consisted of Justin Timberlake, JC Chasez, Chris Kirkpatrick, Joey Fatone, and Lance Bass.42 million copies in one week, blige, country music supergroup Alabama, and Gloria Estefan. Although NSYNC announced the start of a hiatus in early 2002. In 2007, Lance Bass confirmed that the group had broken up. They have sold over 70 million albums during their career, becoming the eighth-best-selling boy band in history, rolling Stone recognized their instant success as one of the Top 25 Teen Idol Breakout Moments of all time. Chris Kirkpatrick, who had missed the cut for the Backstreet Boys, Pearlman said that he would finance the group if Kirkpatrick would find other young male singers. This prompted Kirkpatrick to call Joey Fatone, a friend he had met while working at Universal Studios, then, Fatone and Kirkpatrick approached Lou Pearlman for more suggestions. Pearlman looked through some tapes they had, and one of Justin Timberlake from The Mickey Mouse Club caught his eye, Timberlake soon joined the group and recommended his friend JC Chasez, who also was a cast member on Disney Channels Mickey Mouse Club. Soon, they decided to out their sound by recruiting Jason Galasso as their bass singer. NSYNC received its name after Justin Timberlakes mother commented on how in sync the groups singing voices were, the groups name is also a play on the last letter of each of the original members names, JustiN, ChriS, JoeY, JasoN, and JC. After several weeks of rehearsals, the set up a showcase. However, at the last minute, Galasso dropped out and he was not fond of the groups musical direction, claiming that being a teen idol was never a goal of his. In need of a bass, the group auditioned several people without success, Timberlake soon called his vocal coach, who suggested a 16-year-old from Mississippi named Lance Bass. Bass flew to Orlando to audition and was accepted into the group. He was nicknamed Lansten so they could keep the name NSYNC, Pearlman hired Johnny Wright, manager of the Backstreet Boys, to manage the group. NSYNC sent him a two-song demo-tape including Ill Be Back for More and We Can Work It Out, the group performed for him and a group of BMG executives. Although the record company had concerns with the bands name and Basss dancing abilities. After being signed to BMG Ariola Munich, the group was sent to Sweden to begin working on their album with the help of producers such as Denniz Pop, Max Martin

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Gloria Estefan
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Gloria Estefan is a Cuban-American singer, songwriter, actress, and businesswoman. She started off her career as the singer in the group called Miami Latin Boys which was eventually known as Miami Sound Machine. Estefans breakthrough success with Conga in 1985 made her known worldwide and it won the grand prix in the 15th annual Tokyo Music Festival in Japan. In the middle of 1988 she and the band got their first number-one hit for the song Anything for You, in March 1990, Estefan had a severe accident in her tour bus. She made her comeback in March 1991 with a new world tour and her 1993 Spanish-language album Mi Tierra won the first of her three Grammy Awards for Best Tropical Latin Album. It was the first number-one album on the Billboard Top Latin Albums chart and it was also the first Diamond album in Spain. Many of her songs like Rhythm Is Gonna Get You, 1-2-3, Get On Your Feet, Here We Are, Coming Out of the Dark, Bad Boy, party Time and a remake of Vicki Sue Robinsons Turn the Beat Around became international hits, with chart-topping scores. Estefan has sold an estimated 100 million records worldwide, including 31.5 million in the United States alone and she has won seven Grammy Awards. Estefan also received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, in 2015, she received the Presidential Medal of Freedom for her contributions to American music. Estefan also won an MTV Video Music Award, and two ACE Awards and she was honored with the American Music Award for Lifetime Achievement as well as being named BMI Songwriter of the Year. She was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame and has received multiple Billboard Awards and she is also on the list of VH1 top 100 Greatest Artists of All Time, and in Billboards Top 100 Greatest Artists Of All time. Estefan was born Gloria María Milagrosa Fajardo García in Havana, Cuba, to José Fajardo and Gloria García, prior to the Cuban Revolution, her father was a Cuban soldier and a bodyguard for the wife of Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista. The Fajardo family fled to Miami, Florida as a result of the Cuban Revolution, shortly after they moved to the United States, Glorias father joined the US military and fought in the Vietnam War and moved to Houston after his participation in the failed Bay of Pigs Invasion. Estefan was raised Catholic and attended St. Michael-Archangel School and Our Lady of Lourdes Academy in Miami, Estefan father became ill after returning from Vietnam and Gloria helped her mother, Gloria Fajardo, care for him. Her mother worked as a schoolteacher for the Dade County Public School system, Gloria Estefan graduated from college in 1979 with a BA in psychology, with a minor in French, from the University of Miami. Estefan became a citizen of the United States in 1974, under the name Gloria Garcia Fajardo. Estefan became romantically involved with the Miami Sound Machines band leader, Emilio Estefan, as she later revealed, he was my first and only boyfriend. She and Emilio married on September 2,1978 and they have a son, Nayib and a daughter Emily

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Freddie Prinze Jr.
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Freddie James Prinze Jr. is an American actor. He starred in films, such as I Know What You Did Last Summer, I Still Know What You Did Last Summer, Shes All That, Scooby-Doo. He is currently the voice of Kanan Jarrus in the Disney XD series Star Wars Rebels and he is the husband of Sarah Michelle Gellar and worked for WWE as a producer and director. Prinze was born in Los Angeles, California and he is the only child of actor-comedian Freddie Prinze and real estate agent Katherine Elaine Barber. On January 29,1977, Prinzes father died due to a gunshot wound. Prinze grew up in Albuquerque, New Mexico and he was raised Roman Catholic, embraces his Hispanic heritage, and speaks Spanish. After graduating from school in 1994, Prinze moved to Los Angeles to audition for television roles. Prinze was cast in a guest role on the ABC TV series Family Matters in 1995 and he then appeared in a few programs and made-for-TV movies, before making his motion picture debut in To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday in 1996. In subsequent years, Prinze experienced success with appearances in youth-oriented movies, I Know What You Did Last Summer and its sequel, I Still Know What You Did Last Summer, made him well-known among teenage audiences. In his first leading role, the romantic comedy Shes All That, the film grossed $63 million in the United States. He guest starred on the popular NBC show, Friends, as a male nanny named Sandy on the series 200th episode. He also appeared as Donny Crane, a character believed to be Denny Cranes son in the ABC legal drama-comedy Boston Legal, Prinze starred in his own television sitcom, titled Freddie. The sitcom is said to some actual events from his life. He guest starred on George Lopez for a crossover with Freddie, in 2004, Prinze accepted a special award from TV Land on behalf of his late father. He thanked his fathers former co-star, Della Reese, for her continued advice, in 2006, he lent his voice to the character of Pi in the computer-animated film Shark Bait. Also in 2007, he lent his voice to the character of Rick in Happily NEver After along with his wife Gellar, Wallace Shawn, Andy Dick, George Carlin, and Sigourney Weaver. In 2008, he auditioned for Jigsaw in Punisher, War Zone and he later voice titular character in animation movie Delgo. In 2010, Prinze guest starred on Psych as Dennis, a school friend of Shawn Spencer

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98 Degrees
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98 Degrees is an American pop and R&B boy band consisting of four vocalists, brothers Nick and Drew Lachey, Justin Jeffre, and Jeff Timmons. The group was formed by Timmons in Los Angeles, California, unlike most boy bands, they formed independently and were later picked up by a record label, rather than being assembled by a label or a producer. They have sold over 10 million records worldwide and achieved eight top 40 singles in the U. S, the group reunited for a one-time performance at Mixtape Festival in Hershey, PA in August 2012. After the performance, the reunion expanded into a new album, the founding members of 98 Degrees met after Canton, Ohio native Jeff Timmons decided to quit university and pursue a music career with best friend Jeremy Volk. He studied psychology at Kent State University in his state of Ohio. In 1995 he sang at a party with three friends, and received a positive reaction from the female audience about his voice. The following day he left college and headed out to Los Angeles and it was a pretty hasty decision, looking back, but I was young and dumb. Sometimes ignorance is bliss, he said in 2004 and he met a former student of the School for Creative and Performing Arts who passed his name on to another graduate, Nick Lachey, who was attending Miami University to study sports medicine. Lachey flew to Los Angeles and after hitting it off, decided to form a boyband, Lachey suggested inviting one of his friends, Justin Jeffre, to join them. The final member to join the band was Lacheys younger brother, Drew, after rejecting a series of names, the group decided on 98 Degrees describing body temperature and their music. The new group made the rounds of auditions in Los Angeles. They were discovered by music manager Paris DJon, who at the time was co-managing Montell Jordan, from the start, they emphasized that they wrote much of their own material, which reflected R&B influences more than mainstream pop roots. There are major differences musically between groups, not to mention the fact that we were signed to Motown, which gives us a little more credibility as far as R&B and soul music goes. After sneaking backstage to a Metallica concert, a radio station covering the concert asked them to sing live on the air. With their debut single, Invisible Man which peaked at No.12 on the Billboard Hot 100, the group also toured extensively, including concert dates in Asia. They also opened for several dates of Janet Jacksons Velvet Rope Tour, after building popularity with their appearance in the movie Mulan, and singing True to Your Heart, their album 98 Degrees and Rising went 4× platinum in 1998. Production credit included Atlanta-based producer and Babyface co-writing partner Daryl Simmons, musician credits on the breakthrough album featured Atlanta-based session musician and former Earth, Wind & Fire guitarist Dick Smith. After the first album,98 Degrees left Motown for its parent company, the bands first major hit was Because of You and went platinum

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BBMAK
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BBMak were an English pop/rock group consisting of Mark Barry, Christian Burns and Stephen McNally. Together they sold three million albums and had hit singles worldwide between 1999 and 2003 when they disbanded, the band guest starred on ABCs All My Children in 2000 and Disneys Even Stevens in 2001. They also featured on movie soundtracks. In 1999, when the debut single Back Here was released. The UK single included the groups rendition of the Extreme song More Than Words, the bands next single, Still on Your Side, reached No.8 in the UK and No.54 in the US. BBMak closed that year with a sold out 26 date US concert tour and a live performance on MTVs Times Square New Years Eve special. In 2001, BBMak released a DVD called Sooner or Later, Our First Year in America and their single, Ghost of You and Me. In July 2001, BBMak had the track Miss You More featured on the soundtrack to The Princess Diaries, the song Dont Look Down was also featured on the On the Line soundtrack. The Out of Reach track from the album Into Your Head appeared in one of the episodes of the Lizzie McGuire hit TV series season 2, the band contributed a song titled Always Know Where You Are to Disneys Treasure Planet soundtrack in 2002. BBMak also covered the song Do You Believe in Magic for Disneys Peter Pan sequel, Return to Never Land, in August 2002, BBMak released their second album titled Into Your Head, which reintroduced the group with more emphasis on harmonies. The album reached No.25 on the Billboard 200, the first single from it, Out of My Heart, peaked at No.56 on the Hot 100 chart and No.25 on the adult contemporary chart. In 2003, their next single Staring Into Space was released in select countries, BBMak broke up in 2003, after having released two full-length studio albums with seven singles and three live DVDs, reaching three million records sold worldwide. Burns formed a new band called Inhaler, later renamed The Bleach Works and he has worked with DJ Tiësto and released the single In the Dark featuring Burns. He has also gone on to release his solo album called Simple Modern Answers in 2013. He is currently collaborating with musician Brian Transeau on the music band All Hail the Silence. McNally joined the Liverpool rock band 10 Reasons to Live, as lead singer and he also writes for Indemand Music UK. Barry is writing with his new band, Fresno, and recording demos and writing songs as a solo artist

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No Doubt
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No Doubt is an American rock band from Anaheim, California, that formed in 1986. Since 1994, the group has consisted of vocalist Gwen Stefani, bassist and keyboardist Tony Kanal, guitarist and keyboardist Tom Dumont, since the mid-1990s in live performances and the studio, they have been supported by keyboardist and trombonist Gabrial McNair and keyboardist and trumpeter Stephen Bradley. The ska sound of their song Trapped in a Box that was featured on their first album No Doubt failed to make an impact. The Beacon Street Collection is a raw expression of their sound, inspired by ska punk, the album sold over 100,000 copies in 1995, over three times as many as their first album sold. Fifteen months later, the band reappeared with Rock Steady, which incorporated reggae, the album was primarily recorded in Jamaica and featured collaborations with Jamaican artists Bounty Killer, Sly and Robbie, and Lady Saw. The album produced two Grammy-winning singles, Hey Baby and Underneath It All, as well as Hella Good, after a 2004 tour the band embarked on solo projects, with Stefani releasing two successful solo albums Love. Baby. and The Sweet Escape while Tom Dumont released his own music project. In 2008, the band resumed working slowly on their effort, titled Push and Shove. They have sold over 33 million records worldwide, Eric Stefani and John Spence met at a Dairy Queen and had talked about getting a group together to play music. Eric got a keyboard and gathered some players together to practice, the practice included Eric Stefani, Gwen Stefani, John Spence, Jerry McMahon, Chris Leal, Chris Webb, Gabriel Gonzalez & Alan Meade and Tony Meade. They practiced in Erics parents garage, Tony Kanal went to one of the bands early shows and soon joined the band as its bassist. After initially rejecting her advances, he began dating Gwen, but they kept their secret for a year. Paul Caseley also joined the band in 1987, Eric Carpenter joined the horn section soon after. In December 1987, Spence committed suicide days before the band was to play a gig at The Roxy Theatre for record industry employees. No Doubt disbanded but decided to regroup after several weeks with Alan Meade taking over vocals, when Meade left the band, Gwen replaced him as lead singer, and No Doubt continued to develop a live following in California. He joined No Doubt and replaced Jerry McMahon as the bands guitarist, Adrian Young replaced Chris Webb as the drummer the following year. Caseley left No Doubt in July 1989 for the US Navy Band, No Doubts self-titled debut album was finally released in 1992, but it featured no radio singles, although a video was made for Trapped in a Box. The albums distinctly upbeat pop/cartoon sound sharply contrasted with the then-dominant grunge movement, because the music worlds focus was redirected squarely at Seattle, No Doubts album was not supported by the record label and considered a commercial failure for selling only 30,000 copies

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Enrique Iglesias
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Enrique Miguel Iglesias Preysler, known professionally as Enrique Iglesias, is a Spanish singer, songwriter, actor and record producer. He is widely regarded as the King of Latin Pop, in 2010, he parted with Interscope Records and signed with another Universal Music Group label Republic Records to release bilingual albums. In 2015, Iglesias parted ways with Universal Music Group after a decade and he signed with Sony Music, his upcoming albums will be by Sony Music Latin in Spanish and RCA Records in English. Iglesias has sold over 159 million records worldwide, making him one of the best-selling Spanish artists ever, Iglesias has scored over 150 number-one hits across all of the Billboard charts. He has had five Billboard Hot 100 top five singles, including two number-ones, and holds the record for producing 27 number-one Spanish-language singles on the Billboards Hot Latin Tracks and he also holds the record for most number-one hits and the longest-running number-one hit on that chart. Iglesias also has 14 number-ones on Billboards Dance charts, more than any male artist. Iglesias was born in Madrid, Spain, and is the third and youngest child of Spanish singer Julio Iglesias and Filipina socialite, isabels aunt is actress Neile Adams, the first wife of American actor Steve McQueen and grandmother of actor Steven R. McQueen. He was raised with two siblings, Chabeli and Julio. His mother is Filipina and his father is Spanish, with family from Galicia and Andalusia and his father is of Jewish ancestry and has also claimed Puerto Rican ancestry on his mothers side. At first, Iglesias and his two siblings stayed with their mother, but in 1986, Iglesias grandfather, Dr. Julio Iglesias Puga, was kidnapped by the armed Basque terrorist group ETA. For their safety, Enrique and his brother Julio were sent to live with their father in Miami, there, they were brought up mostly by the nanny, Elvira Olivares, to whom he later dedicated his first album. He also lived in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, for one year with his mother, as his fathers career kept him on the road, the young Iglesias was raised by the family nanny. He attended the prestigious Gulliver Preparatory School and later went on to business at the University of Miami. Iglesias did not want his father to know about his plans for a musical career and he borrowed money from his family nanny and he recorded a demo cassette tape which consisted of a Spanish song and two English songs. Approaching his fathers former publicist, Fernán Martínez, the two promoted the songs under the stage name Enrique Martínez with the backstory of being a singer from Guatemala. Iglesias was signed on to Fonovisa Records, after dropping out of college, he traveled to Toronto to record his first album. On 12 July 1995, Iglesias released Enrique Iglesias, a collection of rock ballads, including hits such as Si Tú Te Vas, Experiencia Religiosa. This album Vivir, along with Iglesias next two albums, was released by the Mexican label Fonovisa and his song Por Amarte was included in Televisas telenovela Marisol, but with a twist, instead of Por amarte daría mi vida, the words were Por amarte Marisol, moriría

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David Spade
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David Wayne Spade is an American actor, stand-up comedian, writer and television personality. He rose to fame in the 1990s as a cast member on Saturday Night Live and he also starred and co-starred in the films Tommy Boy, Black Sheep, Joe Dirt, Joe Dirt 2, Beautiful Loser, Grown Ups, and Grown Ups 2, among others. He has also been part of an ensemble cast of two long-running sitcoms, Just Shoot Me. and Rules of Engagement and he also starred as C. J. Barnes in the sitcom 8 Simple Rules. In animation, he voiced Kuzco in the 2000 film The Emperors New Groove and its direct-to-video sequel, Spade is known for a comedic style, in both his stand-up material and acting roles, that relies heavily on sarcasm and self-deprecation. Spade was born in Birmingham, Michigan and he is the son of Judith J. a writer and magazine editor, and Wayne M. Spade, a sales representative. His brothers are Bryan and Andy Spade, Andy Spade is an entrepreneur who, together with his wife Kate Spade, Spade and his family moved to Scottsdale, Arizona, when David was four years old. His parents divorced soon thereafter, and he and his brothers were raised for the most part by their mother, Spade attended Saguaro High School and later Scottsdale Community College, before transferring to Arizona State University, where he earned his bachelors degree in business in 1986. He also was a member of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity, Spade performed standup at the universitys long-running sketch comedy show, Farce Side Comedy Hour, on numerous occasions. In the mid-80s he also did stand up in the Monday night comedy show at Greasy Tonys Pizza in Tempe, with the help of friend and fellow comedian Dennis Miller, he joined Saturday Night Live in 1988. By 1990, Spade was a regular cast member as well as writer, other characters include Christy Henderson from the Gap Girls, and Karl from the Karls Video sketches. He also did impressions of celebrities, including Brad Pitt. According to interviews with Spade, most of the material that he early in his time at SNL was given to Dana Carvey to perform on the show. Due to his relatively low rate, he was in danger of being fired as a performer. Referring to Murphys lack of box office success at the time, the crack led to audience boos, and made Murphy upset at both Spade and SNL for years afterwards. Though most of the cast left in 1995, Spade stayed the following year to help in the transition with the new cast and he then quit in 1996 citing burnout as the reason. Said Spade, When I leave, it will be to ease the pressure and you cant stay there forever – it kills you inside. It ages you in dog years and he returned to host an episode in 1998 and another in 2005. He appeared with fellow Saturday Night Live cast member and friend Chris Farley in two comedy films, Tommy Boy and Black Sheep

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Aaron Carter
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Aaron Charles Carter is an American singer. He came to fame as a pop and hip hop singer in the late 1990s, establishing himself as a star among pre-teen, born in Tampa, Florida, Carter began performing at age seven and released his self-titled debut album in 1997. Carters next album, Oh Aaron, also went platinum, in 2002, followed by his 2003 Most Requested Hits collection. He has since appeared on Dancing With the Stars, the Broadway play The Fantasticks, Carter released a single, Fools Gold, on April 1,2016 and an EP titled LøVë on February 10,2017. Aaron Charles Carter was born on December 7,1987, at the Tampa General Hospital in Tampa, Florida, the family was originally from New York City, where his older brother Nick, of the boy band Backstreet Boys, was born. In addition to his brother Nick, he also has three sisters, twin sister Angel, B. J. and Leslie, Carter is named after his paternal grandfather, Aaron Charles Carter, and his maternal grandfather, Douglas Charles Spaulding. Carter attended the Frank D. Miles Elementary School and the Ruskin School in Florida, on February 21,2008, Carter was arrested in Kimble County, Texas, when he was pulled over for speeding, and authorities found less than two ounces of marijuana in his car. Carter began his career at the age of seven, as the lead singer of Dead End. He left the band two years because they were interested in alternative rock while Carter was interested in pop. Carter made his first solo appearance, singing a cover of The Jets Crush on You, the performance was followed by a record contract, and in the fall of 1997, he released his first single, Crush on You. His first full-length album was released on December 1,1997, the eponymous debut album achieved gold status in Norway, Spain, Denmark, Canada, and Germany, and was released in the United States on June 16,1998. Carters next album, Aarons Party was released in the United States on September 26,2000 under the Jive label, the album sold more than three million copies in the United States and was certified 3x platinum by RIAA. The album included the hit singles, I Want Candy, Aarons Party, Thats How I Beat Shaq and Bounce and he also made several guest appearances on Nickelodeon and performed as opening act in several concerts for Britney Spears and the Backstreet Boys. In December of that year the album went platinum and he began dating teen actress Hilary Duff, in March 2001, he made his acting debut, guest starring on an episode of the Disney Channel series Lizzie McGuire. That same month, he and fellow teen star Samantha Mumba performed a concert in MGM studios live on Disney Channel, titled Aaron Carter, Aarons part of the concert was released to DVD that same month as Aarons Party, Live in Concert. In April 2001, he made his Broadway debut, playing JoJo the Who in Seussical the Musical by Lynn Ahrens, play Along Toys also created an Aaron Carter action figure in conjunction with the albums release. Oh Aaron also went platinum that year and a live concert at Baton Rouge, Louisiana, was released to DVD as Oh Aaron. Carters next album, Another Earthquake, was released on September 3,2002, during the Rock, Rap, the album featured the patriotic-themed America A. O. and the ballad Do You Remember

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Nick Carter (musician)
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Nickolas Gene Nick Carter is an American singer, songwriter, actor, dancer, record producer, author and video director. He is best known as a member of the pop group the Backstreet Boys and he has made occasional television appearances and starred in his own reality shows, House of Carters and I Nick Carter. He gained fame in the mid 1990s and early 2000s as a teen idol and he is also the older and only brother of singer Aaron Carter. Nickolas Gene Carter was born in Jamestown, New York, where his parents, Jane Elizabeth Schneck and Robert Gene Carter, several years later, the family moved to Ruskin, Florida and managed the Garden Villa Retirement Home, where they added to the family. Carters siblings are Bobbie Jean, Leslie, and twins Aaron, Carters father has a daughter, Ginger Carter, from a previous marriage. His father remarried to Ginger R. Elrod in 2004, and had a son, Kaden Brent and he performed in several commercials, such as the Florida State Lottery and The Money Store. He played the role in the fourth grade production of Phantom of the Opera at Miles Elementary School. He also did a video called Reach For The Book. He also made an appearance in the 1990 Johnny Depp film Edward Scissorhands as a child playing on a Slip N Slide, one of his dance teachers, Sandy, placed him in his first group called Nick and the Angels. Between 1989-1993, Carter covered a number of popular songs by other artists, including Breaking Up Is Hard to Do and Uptown Girl. These recordings ended up on a release called Before the Backstreet Boys 1989–1993 by Dynamic Discs. It is revealed that through several auditions, Nick met AJ McLean and Howie Dorough, after a troubled upbringing, he put in a winning performance on the 1992 New Original Amateur Hour at age 12. At 11 years old, Carter also auditioned for Disneys The Mickey Mouse Club and he was not chosen right away to be a part of the Backstreet Boys because his mother Jane wanted him to join The Mickey Mouse Club so that he could stay in school. A week later, he was asked to join the group and was given the choice of either joining The Mickey Mouse Club with a $50,000 contract or this new music group, Nick chose to go with the group instead. The Mickey Mouse Club was cancelled a few years later, after he joined the group, he had his own personal tutor on tour. At only 13 years old, Carter, AJ McLean, Brian Littrell, Howie Dorough, the group has recorded several albums, beginning in the mid-1990s, the latest being 2013s In a World Like This. In March 2016, the announced that they will begin an exclusive headlining residency at Planet Hollywood in Las Vegas called Backstreet Boys. In 2002, when the Backstreet Boys expressed a desire to leave their management company, The Firm

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Usher (singer)
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Usher Raymond IV is an American singer, songwriter, dancer, and actor. Born in Dallas, Texas but raised and lived in Chattanooga, Tennessee until moving to Atlanta, at the age of 12, his mother put him in local singing competitions, before catching the attention of a music A&R from LaFace Records. In 1994 he released his debut album, Usher. 8701 produced the number-one singles U Remind Me and U Got It Bad and it sold 8 million copies worldwide and won his first two Grammy Awards as Best Male R&B Vocal Performance in 2002 and 2003. Confessions established him as one of the musical artists of the 2000s decade. Bolstered by its four consecutive Billboard Hot 100 number one singles, Burn, Confessions Part II, and My Boo, it has been certified Diamond by the RIAA. Here I Stand and Raymond v. Raymond, debuted atop of the Billboard 200, the EP, Versus, also produced the Hot 100 top-five single DJ Got Us Fallin in Love. Looking 4 Myself, also debuted atop the Billboard 200 chart, Raymond v. Raymond and Looking 4 Myself received Grammy Awards for R&B singles There Goes My Baby and Climax. Hard II Love peaked at five of the Billboard 200 albums chart. Usher has sold 23.8 million albums and 38.2 million digital songs in the United States, to date, his worldwide sales stand at 43 million albums and 75 million records overall, making him one of the best-selling music artists of all time. Usher has won awards and accolades including 18 Billboard Music Awards and 8 Grammy Awards. Billboard also placed him at number 6 on their list of Top 50 R&B/Hip-Hop Artists of the Past 25 Years, Usher has attained 9 US Hot 100 number-one singles. Considered an icon and sex symbol, he was inducted into the Georgia Music Hall of Fame, in 2008, he started his own record label Raymond-Braun Media Group, a joint venture with talent manager Scooter Braun that includes Canadian singer Justin Bieber. Usher was born in Dallas, Texas, the son of Jonetta Patton, from Tennessee, Usher spent the majority of his young life in Chattanooga, his father left the family when Usher was a year old. Usher grew up with his mother, then-stepfather, and half-brother, while in Atlanta, Usher attended North Springs High School. At age 10, Usher joined an R&B local quintet called the NuBeginnings, Usher recorded 10 songs with the group in 1991, and the ensuing album, Nubeginning Featuring Usher Raymond IV, was only made available regionally and by mail order. However, Patton took him out because, according to her, the album was re-released nationally in April 2002 by Hip-O Records. At age 13, Usher would meet A. J, alexander at local talent show in Atlanta

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Eve (rapper)
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Eve Jihan Jeffers-Cooper is an American rapper and actress from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She is also the winner of the Grammy Award for Best Rap/Sung Collaboration in 2002, for the song Let Me Blow Ya Mind. Eve was number 48 on VH1s 50 Greatest Women of the Video Era list and she has also achieved success in fashion, with her clothing line, Fetish. Eve was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the daughter of Julie Wilch, a publishing company supervisor, and Jerry Jeffers, a chemical plant supervisor. She adopted the name Gangsta in high school as part of a group called EDGP During her early years in Philadelphia. Eves first musical interest was singing and she sang in many choirs and even formed an all-female singing group with a manager. This group covered songs from En Vogue and Color Me Badd, the groups manager suggested that the group should rap after seeing ABC, and Eve stuck with it. She then went on to form a rapping group, after the group split, Eve began working on a solo career under the name Eve of Destruction. Eve has lived in Los Angeles, New York City, in 1999, she was featured on Princes album Rave Un2 The Joy Fantastic, and she was to co-star on the eventually cancelled Hot Wit U single from that same album. Eve is featured on the song You Got Me by The Roots, the song won a Grammy Award in 2000, which should have been Eves first. She stated on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon in 2009 that she did not receive a Grammy for the track, questlove, from The Roots, had brought his Grammy to the show that night and showed shes not even credited on the award plaque. She also provided vocals on the song Aint Sayin Nothin New from the same album. In the albums notes, she is referred to as Eve of Destruction. Eve first appeared on the Bulworth soundtrack as Eve of Destruction while signed to Dr. Dres Aftermath Entertainment, Billboard Hot 100 peaking at 29. Her 1999 debut, Let There Be Eve, two singles were released from the album, Gotta Man and Love Is Blind featuring Faith Evans. The first one peaked at number 26 on the Billboard Hot 100, in November 1999, Eve featured on Missy Elliotts single Hot Boyz along with Nas, Lil Mo and Q-Tip. The song became a hit, spending 18 weeks at one on the Hot Rap Singles from November 16,1999 to March 7,2000. The follow-up to Ruff Ryders First Lady, Scorpion, was released in 2001 and its first single, Whos That Girl guaranteed the rapper first international success

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Gwen Stefani
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Gwen Renée Stefani is an American singer, songwriter, and fashion designer. During the bands hiatus, Stefani embarked on a pop career in 2004 by releasing her debut studio album Love. Inspired by pop music from the 1980s, the album was met both critical and commercial success. It spawned three successful singles, What You Waiting For. Rich Girl, and Hollaback Girl, the reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 while also becoming the first US download to sell one million copies. In 2006 Stefani released her studio album The Sweet Escape. The album produced two singles, Wind It Up and the albums title track The Sweet Escape. Her third solo album This Is What the Truth Feels Like was released in March 2016, Stefani has won three Grammy Awards. As a solo artist she has received accolades, including an American Music Award, Brit Award, World Music Award. In 2003, she debuted her clothing line L. A. M. B. and expanded her collection with the 2005 Harajuku Lovers line, drawing inspiration from Japanese culture, Stefani performs and makes public appearances with four back-up dancers known as the Harajuku Girls. She was married to British musician Gavin Rossdale from 2002 to 2015, Billboard magazine ranked Stefani the 54th most successful artist and 37th most successful Hot 100 artist of the 2000–09 decade. VH1 ranked her 13th on their 100 Greatest Women in Music list in 2012, including her work with No Doubt, Stefani has sold more than 30 million albums worldwide. Stefani was born on October 3,1969, in Fullerton, California and she was named after a stewardess in the 1968 novel Airport, and her middle name, Renée, comes from The Four Tops 1968 cover of The Left Bankes 1966 song Walk Away Renée. Her father, Dennis Stefani, is Italian American and worked as a Yamaha marketing executive and her mother, Patti, worked as an accountant before becoming a housewife. Gwens parents were fans of music and exposed her to music by artists like Bob Dylan. She has two siblings, Jill and Todd, and an older brother named Eric. Eric was the keyboardist for No Doubt before leaving the band to pursue a career in animation on The Simpsons. Her brother Eric introduced Gwen to 2 Tone music by Madness and The Selecter and, in 1986, he invited her to provide vocals for No Doubt, finally, in 1991, the band was signed to Interscope Records

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Shaggy (musician)
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Orville Richard Burrell CD, known mostly by his stage name Shaggy, is a Jamaican-American reggae fusion singer and deejay. He is best known for his hit singles Oh Carolina, Boombastic, It Wasnt Me and he was nicknamed after Shaggy Rogers, the cartoon character from the popular television series Scooby Doo. Burrell was born on October 22,1968 in Kingston, Jamaica, at the age of 7, he and his family moved to the New Edinburgh area of Ottawa, Canada. In 1987, he took singing courses and was discovered a year later and his son is rapper Robb Banks from Florida. Shaggy enlisted in the United States Marine Corps and obtained the MOS of 0811 and he served with a firing battery from the 10th Marine Regiment in Saudi Arabia during the Persian Gulf War. The highest rank he achieved was lance corporal, although he was reduced in rank twice, Shaggy perfected his signature singing voice in the Marine Corps. Shaggy decided to pursue his career and his first hit in 1993, Oh Carolina, was a dancehall re-make of a ska hit by the Folkes Brothers. The same year, Shaggy appeared on Kenny Dopes hip hop album The Unreleased Project and he worked together with producers such as Sting International, Don One, Lloyd Spiderman Campbell, Robert Livingston and Frankie Cutlass on a remix from his Maxi-Single title Nice and Lovely. He had further big hits, including Boombastic in 1995, the tune of a popular Levis commercial. In 2000, Shaggy released the album Hot Shot, which was certified 6x Platinum in the U. S, in 2001 Shaggy performed with Rayvon and Rikrok at Michael Jacksons 30th anniversary the songs Angel and It Wasnt Me from Hot Shot. The album hit number one on the Billboard 200 and U. K. albums chart, however, his 2002 release Lucky Day, and the 2005 album Clothes Drop, failed to match Hot Shots success, although Lucky Day still went gold. The albums, however, found success in Europe, especially with heavy airplay for the single Hey Sexy Lady, Shaggy re-made the Scooby-Doo theme song on the soundtrack titled Shaggy, Where Are You. Shaggy also recorded the theme for the 2002 movie Showtime, shaggys last top 40 single in the United States was Angel from the album Hot Shot. On March 11,2002 Shaggy and Ali G released Me Julie from the soundtrack to the film Ali G Indahouse, the song sold 300,000 copies in the United Kingdom, as stated by the Official Charts Company. It spent 14 weeks on the UK Singles Chart, peaking at number two, following the release of Clothes Drop, Shaggy began to increase his number of live performances. Later that year, he left Universal Music and released his latest album, Intoxication under his own label, Big Yard Records, with distribution rights by VP Records. In August 2007, he joined Cyndi Lauper live on stage in Singapore for the Sonnet Music Festival, in October 2007, he was awarded the Jamaican Order of Distinction with the rank of Commander. In January 2008, he completed an arena tour with Belgian singer Natalia

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Verne Troyer
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Verne Troyer is an American actor, stunt actor and comedian. He is notable for his height of 2 ft 8 in and he is best known for playing Mini-Me in the Austin Powers series of comedy films. Since 2014, Troyer has appeared as The Boss in adverts for gambling site Bgo. com, Troyer was born in Sturgis, Michigan, the son of Susan, a factory worker, and Reuben Troyer, a repair technician. He has two siblings, Davon and Deborah, during his childhood, Troyer spent much time visiting Amish relatives in Centreville, Michigan, and graduated from Centreville High School in 1987. Troyer was initially raised Amish but his parents left the faith when he was a child and he has stated that his parents never treated me any different than my other average sized siblings. I used to have to carry wood, feed the cows and pigs and he reportedly married model Genevieve Gallen on February 22,2004, but filed for an annulment the next day. Though the couples engagement was reported, Troyer and his attorney deny that the two ever had any formal wedding plans, saying that Gallen had fabricated the story for her own financial gain. On June 25,2008, a home video leaked of Troyer and his former live-in girlfriend, Ranae Shrider. The video, filmed in 2008 in Beverly Hills, California, kevin Blatt, the man responsible for brokering the deal for Paris Hiltons sex tape in 2003, tried to sell the video. Troyer, through his attorney, Ed McPherson, sued TMZ, Blatt. In May 2015, Verne, his girlfriend Brittney Powell, and her son Tyson appeared on Celebrity Wife Swap, where she switched places with Hines Wards wife. In the USA The Surreal Life, Fame Games Welcome to Sweden Celebrity Juice – himself The Smoking Gun Presents, Worlds Dumbest. com TV Campaign – Beat the Boss Whose Line Is It Anyway. – himself Through the Keyhole – himself Celebrity Wife Swap – himself Verne Troyer at the Internet Movie Database Verne Troyer interview, Movieset. com, accessed August 12,2015

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Nelly
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Cornell Iral Haynes, Jr. known professionally as Nelly, is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, entrepreneur, investor, and occasional actor from St. Louis, Missouri. Nelly embarked on his career with Midwest hip hop group St. Lunatics, in 1993. Under Universal, Nelly began his career in the year 2000, with his debut album Country Grammar. The album debuted at three on the Billboard 200 and went on to peak at number one. Country Grammar is Nellys best-selling album to date, selling over 8.4 million copies in the United States and his following album Nellyville, produced the number-one hits Hot in Herre and Dilemma. Other singles included Work It, Air Force Ones, Pimp Juice, with the same-day dual release of Sweat, Suit and the compilation Sweatsuit, Nelly continued to generate many chart-topping hits. Sweat debuted at two on the US Billboard 200 chart, selling 342,000 copies in its first week. On the same week of release, Suit debuted at number one, Nellys fifth studio album, Brass Knuckles, was released on September 16,2008, after several delays. It produced the singles Party People, Stepped on My Jz, in 2010, Nelly released the album 5.0. The lead single, Just a Dream, was certified platinum in the United States. It also included the singles Move That Body and Gone, Nelly won Grammy Awards in 2003 and 2004 and had a supporting role in the 2005 remake film The Longest Yard with Adam Sandler and Chris Rock. He has two clothing lines, Vokal and Apple Bottoms, on December 11,2009, Billboard ranked Nelly the number three Top Artist of the Decade. Nelly was born in Austin, Texas, where his father was serving in the military, when he was seven, his parents divorced. Nelly moved with his mother from St. Louis to University City, while still in high school, Nelly formed the St. Lunatics, a hip hop group who enjoyed local popularity with their single Gimme What Ya Got. Nelly decided to go solo, after a record deal failed to appear. He was signed to Universal Music Group by A&R Kevin Law, Nelly was unusual for being a rapper from the Midwest at a time when the hip-hop scenes were centered around the East Coast, West Coast and the South. The label used this to their advantage by branding Nelly as a star of the Midwest, hoping to inspire pride in the people of St Louis, Nelly was signed with St. Lunatics. Kevin Law and Country from FoReel Entertainment decided to do a record with Nelly first

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BBMak
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BBMak were an English pop/rock group consisting of Mark Barry, Christian Burns and Stephen McNally. Together they sold three million albums and had hit singles worldwide between 1999 and 2003 when they disbanded, the band guest starred on ABCs All My Children in 2000 and Disneys Even Stevens in 2001. They also featured on movie soundtracks. In 1999, when the debut single Back Here was released. The UK single included the groups rendition of the Extreme song More Than Words, the bands next single, Still on Your Side, reached No.8 in the UK and No.54 in the US. BBMak closed that year with a sold out 26 date US concert tour and a live performance on MTVs Times Square New Years Eve special. In 2001, BBMak released a DVD called Sooner or Later, Our First Year in America and their single, Ghost of You and Me. In July 2001, BBMak had the track Miss You More featured on the soundtrack to The Princess Diaries, the song Dont Look Down was also featured on the On the Line soundtrack. The Out of Reach track from the album Into Your Head appeared in one of the episodes of the Lizzie McGuire hit TV series season 2, the band contributed a song titled Always Know Where You Are to Disneys Treasure Planet soundtrack in 2002. BBMak also covered the song Do You Believe in Magic for Disneys Peter Pan sequel, Return to Never Land, in August 2002, BBMak released their second album titled Into Your Head, which reintroduced the group with more emphasis on harmonies. The album reached No.25 on the Billboard 200, the first single from it, Out of My Heart, peaked at No.56 on the Hot 100 chart and No.25 on the adult contemporary chart. In 2003, their next single Staring Into Space was released in select countries, BBMak broke up in 2003, after having released two full-length studio albums with seven singles and three live DVDs, reaching three million records sold worldwide. Burns formed a new band called Inhaler, later renamed The Bleach Works and he has worked with DJ Tiësto and released the single In the Dark featuring Burns. He has also gone on to release his solo album called Simple Modern Answers in 2013. He is currently collaborating with musician Brian Transeau on the music band All Hail the Silence. McNally joined the Liverpool rock band 10 Reasons to Live, as lead singer and he also writes for Indemand Music UK. Barry is writing with his new band, Fresno, and recording demos and writing songs as a solo artist

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Ashanti (singer)
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Ashanti Shequoiya Douglas, known simply as Ashanti, is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, dancer and actress. Ashanti is known for her eponymous album, which featured the hit song Foolish. In 2003, the debut album won Ashanti her first Grammy Award for Best Contemporary R&B album. Her second release achieved a certification and other top 10 singles. Later that year, she was acclaimed as the Princess Of Hip-Hop & R&B by her label and capped off her debut by winning eight Billboard awards. Ashanti cites Whitney Houston, Janet Jackson, Prince, Madonna, Tupac Shakur, Mary J. Blige, Ella Fitzgerald, Smokey Robinson, Donna Summer, since 2013, she is currently working on her own publishing company titled Written Entertainment. Ashanti Shequoiya Douglas was born on October 13,1980, in Glen Cove and her mother, Tina Douglas, is a former dance teacher, and her father, Ken-Kaide Thomas Douglas, is a former singer. Her mother named her after the Ashanti Empire in Ghana, in this nation, women have power and influence and her grandfather, James, was a civil rights activist who associated with Martin Luther King, Jr. in the 1960s. Growing up, Ashanti took dance lessons and joined the church choir, Ashanti went to Bernice Johnson Cultural Arts Center, where she studied different dance styles, including tap, jazz, ballet, African, modern, and hip hop. She danced with the Senior Pro Ensemble at Carnegie Hall, the Apollo Theater, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Avery Fisher Hall, and she also performed at the 1994 Caribbean Awards and dancing with Judith Jamison of the Alvin Ailey Dance Company. Ashanti also performed in the 1989 Disney television film Polly alongside stars Keshia Knight Pulliam, Jomecia Moore, by the time Ashanti hit puberty, her mother was sending out demo tapes of her singing and dancing. The family could not afford to go to a studio and record a demo, so when labels called. While attending high school, she began to write songs, as a teenager, she performed in a local talent show and at the Soul Cafe, China Club, Madison Square Garden, Carolines Comedy Club, and Greek Fest 2000. In her first major singing performance, Ashanti performed Yolanda Adamss More Than a Melody and she also appeared in a number of big-name music videos, in addition to other dance work. Ashanti got her first taste of acting as an extra in Spike Lees Malcolm X. She was also one of the students in the 3-2-1 Contact Extra, What Kids Want To Know About Sex and she also had a couple of minor appearances in music videos, such as KRS-Ones MCs Act Like They Dont Know as well as 8-Offs Ghetto Girl. When Ashanti was 16, she was discovered by P. Diddys Bad Boy Records, initially, she went to Bad Boy Records and sang one of Mary J. Bliges songs in front of P. Diddy and Biggie Smalls. After being impressed by her ability, Diddy had her sign to a development deal

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Kelly Clarkson
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Kelly Brianne Clarkson is an American singer and songwriter. She rose to fame in 2002 after winning the first season of American Idol, Clarksons debut single, A Moment Like This, topped the Billboard Hot 100 and became the best-selling single of 2002 in the U. S. It was followed with her studio album, Thankful, which debuted at number one on the Billboard 200. Trying to reinvent her own image, Clarkson decided to part ways with American Idol management and developed a pop sound for her second album. It sold over 15 million copies worldwide and earned Clarkson two Grammy Awards and she took further creative control for her third album, My December, by becoming the executive producer and co-writing the entire material. However, it caused feud with her label, that was dissatisfied with her darker, less commercial rock music, Clarkson returned to the top of the charts with her more mainstream-oriented fourth album, All I Ever Wanted. Its lead single, My Life Would Suck Without You, holds the record for the biggest jump to one on the Billboard Hot 100. She scored another Hot 100 number-one single with Stronger from her studio album. Clarkson also became the first act to win the Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Album twice. Her sixth studio album and first Christmas record, Wrapped in Red, ended up as the holiday album of the year. Her seventh and final album under RCA, Piece by Piece, was her album to debut at number one on the Billboard 200. Its title track became her eleventh single on the Hot 100. She signed with Atlantic Records in 2016 and has prepared a soul-influenced album for a 2017 release, Clarkson has sold over 70 million records worldwide and scored a total of 100 number ones on the Billboard charts. Her accolades include three Grammy Awards, three MTV Video Music Awards, twelve Billboard Music Awards, four American Music Awards, and two Academy of Country Music Awards. Often called one of the best vocalists in the industry, Clarkson is known for her powerhouse voice and she became the first artist in history to top each of Billboards pop, adult contemporary, country and dance charts. She was ranked nineteenth on VH1s list of 100 Greatest Women in Music, Clarkson has also ventured into television and film, as well as writing childrens book. Clarkson was born in Fort Worth, Texas, to Jeanne Ann, a first-grade English teacher, and Stephen Michael Clarkson and she is the youngest of three children with a brother named Jason and a sister named Alyssa. Clarkson also has two half brothers from her fathers second marriage

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Evanescence
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Evanescence /ˌɛv. æn. ˈɛs. ɛns/ is an American rock band founded in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1995 by singer/pianist Amy Lee and guitarist Ben Moody. After recording independent albums, the released their first full-length album, Fallen. Fallen sold more than 17 million copies worldwide and helped the band win two Grammy Awards out of seven nominations, as well as scoring No.6 in CBSs Top Bestselling Albums of the Last 10 Years. A year later, Evanescence released their first live album, Anywhere but Home, in 2006, the band released their second studio album, The Open Door, which sold more than five million copies. As a result, none of the three studio albums feature the same lineup. The latter two led to a hiatus, with temporary band members contributing to tour performances. Billboard ranked Evanescence No.71 on the Best Artists of the Decade chart, announced in June 2009, the newest line-up of the band eventually returned with Evanescence, their self-titled third studio album, released on October 11,2011. It debuted at No.1 on the Billboard 200 chart with 127,000 copies in sales, the album also debuted at No.1 on four other different Billboard charts, the Rock Albums, Digital Albums, Alternative Albums, and the Hard Rock Albums charts. The band spent 2012 on tour in promotion of their latest album with bands including The Pretty Reckless. Troy McLawhorn also became a band member during this time. Following the end of the tour cycle in 2012, the band entered another hiatus. In 2015, the band emerged from hiatus and announced they would resume touring, however, they denied that new Evanescence material was being produced, in addition, Balsamo left the band and was replaced by Jen Majura. Late 2016 saw additional touring from the band and a statement from Lee that Evanescence would continue, in March 2017, Lee stated Evanescence was working on a fourth album for release later in 2017. Evanescence was founded by singer, pianist and songwriter Amy Lee and former lead guitarist, the two met in 1994 at a youth camp in Little Rock, where Moody heard Lee playing a Meat Loaf song on the piano. The band became popular performing in coffee shops around the Little Rock area. After experimenting with band names, such as Childish Intentions and Stricken, they decided on Evanescence, the first is the self-titled Evanescence EP, of which about 100 copies were made and distributed at the bands early live performances. The second is the Sound Asleep EP, also known as the Whisper EP, there was also a third EP called Mystary EP. For their first full-length demo CD, Origin, about 2,500 copies were produced, Origin and the EPs contain demo versions of some songs on their debut album, Fallen

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The Donnas
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The Donnas are an American rock band from Palo Alto, California. They consist of Brett Anderson, Allison Robertson, Maya Ford, Cesari replaced Torry Castellano, who left the band in 2009 due to tendonitis. They draw inspiration from Ramones, The Runaways, AC/DC, Bachman–Turner Overdrive, rolling Stone has stated that the Donnas offer a guileless take on adolescent alienation, they traffic in kicks, not catharsis, fun rather than rage. MTV has stated that the band offers a good old-fashioned rock & roll party, all the founding band members were born in 1979, Brett Anderson on May 30, Allison Robertson on August 26, and Maya Ford and Torry Castellano, both on January 8. They all became friends by eighth grade and formed as a band in May 1993 to play for their schools Day on the Green, one of two girl bands in their town Palo Alto, California, they were relatively unknown until they were out of high school. They are all musicians and practiced in Castellanos garage nearly every day during high school. They worked with producer Darin Raffaelli for their first two albums, the first of which, simply called The Donnas, was released on Raffaellis Superteem. They took a week off their year of high school to tour Japan as The Donnas. As the band grew, they were urged to sign with a label company. In 2001, they signed with Atlantic Records, in 2002, The Donnas released Spend the Night as their Atlantic debut. The album represented their first attempt at mainstream success, with their single Take it Off they were booked for appearances on Total Request Live, Saturday Night Live, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, and the Late Show with David Letterman. In the summer of 2003, they played the stage at Lollapalooza. In 2004, they released their sixth album Gold Medal, in February 2005, they toured Australia with the Big Day Out music festival, playing from Sydney to Perth. While in Aust. they performed Take It Off Live on National Prime time show Rove Live with Rove McManus, Atlantic repeatedly placed the Donnas music in video game soundtracks. Youve Got A Crush On Me can be heard in the PlayStation 2 game Splashdown, who Invited You can be found on the soundtracks for True Crime, Streets of LA and MVP Baseball 2003 as well as Splashdown, Rides Gone Wild. I Dont Want to Know is in the Gran Turismo 4 soundtrack also, I Dont Want to Know was also used as the theme song for the first season of The-Ns hit series, South of Nowhere. A cover of Take it Off is featured in Guitar Hero and added as a track in Guitar Hero 2 on the Xbox 360. Rock Band 2, released by Harmonix in 2008, features the track New Kid In School which was released exclusively on Apples iTunes service, Fall Behind Me was also used in a national television commercial advertising the Nissan Xterra while Take It Off was used in a Budweiser commercial

Fox Broadcasting Company
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The Fox Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcast television network that is owned by the Fox Entertainment Group subsidiary of 21st Century Fox. It is the third largest major network in the world based on total revenues, assets. Launched on October 9,1986 as a competitor to the Big Three television networks, Fox and its affiliated c

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Fox Broadcasting Company

Surfboard
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A surfboard is an elongated platform used in the sport of surfing. Surfboards are relatively light, but are enough to support an individual standing on them while riding a Ocean surface wave breaking wave. Major advances over the years include the addition of one or more fins on the rear of the board to improve directional stability. Modern surfboa

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A stack of boards in Waikiki during a surf competition.

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A chart showing various shapes of the bottoms of surf boards.

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A man standing on a board as the wave passes under him.

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Nubster Fin Seen In Middle

Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards
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The Nickelodeon Kids Choice Awards, also known as the KCAs or Kids Choice Awards, is an annual awards show that airs on the Nickelodeon cable channel. Usually held on a Saturday night in late March or early April, the show that honors the years biggest television, movie, winners receive a hollow orange blimp figurine, a logo outline for much of the

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Jonas Brothers performing at the 2009 show

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Finishing up with the "Orange Carpet" for the Kids' Choice Awards outside of Pauley Pavilion, UCLA campus

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The final slime at the 2010 Kids' Choice Awards

MTV
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MTV is an American cable and satellite television channel owned by Viacom Media Networks and headquartered in New York City. Launched on August 1,1981, the originally aired music videos as guided by television personalities known as video jockeys. In its early years, MTVs main target demographic was young adults and it has received criticism toward

Gibson Amphitheatre
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Universal Amphitheatre was an indoor amphitheatre located in Los Angeles, California within Universal City. It was originally built as a venue, opening in the summer of 1972 with a production of Jesus Christ Superstar. It was remodeled and converted into a theatre in 1982 to improve acoustics. The amphitheater closed on September 6,2013 to be demol

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Gibson Amphitheatre

Universal City, California
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Universal City is an unincorporated area within the San Fernando Valley region of Los Angeles County, California, United States. This 70 percent portion of the property remains unincorporated to avoid the City of Los Angeles business taxes, located within the area of Universal City is the Universal Studios Hollywood film studio and theme park and t

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The Universal City sign, on the corner of Lankershim Boulevard and Universal Hollywood Drive in 2009.

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Early map of Burbank, California with Forest Lawn Hollywood Hills on the bottom left.

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Universal CityWalk, Universal City, CA

Pauley Pavilion
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Edwin W. Pauley Pavilion, commonly known as Pauley Pavilion, is an indoor arena located in the Westwood Village district of Los Angeles, California, on the campus of UCLA. It is home to the UCLA Bruins mens and womens basketball teams, the mens and womens volleyball and womens gymnastics teams also compete here. The building, designed by architect

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The inside of the newly renovated Pauley Pavilion with the new center circle and scoreboards on January 2013

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Men's Basketball game at Pauley Pavilion on 1/8/05 when UCLA came from 22 down to upset Washington.

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North side of Pauley Pavilion prior to the 2011-12 renovation

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UCLA vs. USC volleyball 2008

UCLA
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The University of California, Los Angeles is a public research university in the Westwood district of Los Angeles, California, United States. It became the Southern Branch of the University of California in 1919 and it offers 337 undergraduate and graduate degree programs in a wide range of disciplines. UCLA enrolls about 31,000 undergraduate and 1

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The Los Angeles branch of California State Normal School, 1881.

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UCLA official seal

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University of California, Southern Branch's Vermont Campus, 1922.

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The Bruin statue, designed by Billy Fitzgerald, in Bruin Plaza.

Westwood, Los Angeles
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Westwood is a commercial and residential neighborhood in the northern central portion of the Westside region of Los Angeles, California. It is the home of the University of California, Los Angeles, the 2000 census found the forty-seven thousand people living in the neighborhood were generally young and moderately diverse ethnically, with a generall

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High-rise buildings line Wilshire Boulevard through the Westwood area

Shrine Auditorium
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The Shrine Auditorium is a landmark large-event venue in Los Angeles, California. It is also the headquarters of the Al Malaikah Temple, a division of the Shriners and it was designated a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument in 1975. Opened in 1926, the current Shrine Auditorium replaced an earlier 1906 Al Malaikah Temple which had destroyed by a

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The Shrine Auditorium

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The old Shrine Auditorium, 1910.

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The Shrine Auditorium in 1990, before being repainted in 2002.

Los Angeles
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Los Angeles, officially the City of Los Angeles and often known by its initials L. A. is the cultural, financial, and commercial center of Southern California. With a census-estimated 2015 population of 3,971,883, it is the second-most populous city in the United States, Los Angeles is also the seat of Los Angeles County, the most populated county

Galen Center
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The Galen Center is a multipurpose indoor arena and athletic facility owned and operated by the University of Southern California. The architectural firm behind the design of the Galen Center is HNTB, in addition to basketball and volleyball events, the Galen Center hosts concerts, pageants and theatrical performances. Local high school graduation

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The arena's north corner in November 2006

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Interior during an exhibition basketball game against Cal Poly Pomona

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View of Downtown Los Angeles from the Galen Center's unique window

The Forum (Inglewood, California)
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The Forum is a multi-purpose indoor arena in Inglewood, California, adjacent to Los Angeles. Located between West Manchester Boulevard, across Pincay Drive and Kareem Court, it is north of the under-construction Los Angeles Stadium at Hollywood Park and it is about three miles east of Los Angeles International Airport. Opening on December 30,1967,

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The Prairie Ave facade of The Forum in 2014

Jennifer Love Hewitt
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Jennifer Love Hewitt is an American actress, television producer and director, singer/songwriter and author. Hewitt began her career as a child by appearing in television commercials. She rose to fame for her role as Sarah Reeves Merrin on the Fox teen drama Party of Five and she later starred in the horror film I Know What You Did Last Summer and

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Hewitt at the premiere of 27 Dresses in 2008

Marlon Wayans
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Marlon Lamont Wayans is an American actor, comedian, screenwriter, and film producer, beginning with his role as a pedestrian in Im Gonna Git You Sucka in 1988. He frequently collaborates with his brother Shawn Wayans, as he was on The WB sitcom The Wayans Bros. and in the comedic films Scary Movie, Scary Movie 2, White Chicks, Little Man, and Danc

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Wayans at the Wynn Resort and Casino, Las Vegas, 2007

Hugh Jackman
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Hugh Michael Jackman is an Australian actor, singer, and producer. Jackman has won recognition for his roles in a variety of film genres. His work in Les Misérables earned him his first Academy Award nomination for Best Actor, in Broadway theatre, Jackman won a Tony Award for his role in The Boy from Oz. A four-time host of the Tony Awards themselv

Barker Hangar
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Santa Monica Airport is a general aviation airport largely in Santa Monica, California. The airport is about 2 miles from the Pacific Ocean and 6 miles north of LAX, the FAAs National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2009–2013 categorized it as a reliever airport. The airport will open until 2029. Originally Clover Field, after World War I av

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2006 USGS airphoto

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Facing east toward Century City and landing aircraft

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Approaching Santa Monica Airport from the east

California
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California is the most populous state in the United States and the third most extensive by area. Located on the western coast of the U. S, California is bordered by the other U. S. states of Oregon, Nevada, and Arizona and shares an international border with the Mexican state of Baja California. Los Angeles is Californias most populous city, and th

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A forest of redwood trees in Redwood National Park

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Flag

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Mount Shasta

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Aerial view of the California Central Valley

Britney Spears
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Britney Jean Spears is an American singer, dancer, and actress. Born in McComb, Mississippi, and raised in Kentwood, Louisiana, she performed acting roles in stage productions, Spearss first and second studio albums. Baby One More Time and Oops. I Did It Again, became international successes, with the former becoming the album by a teenage solo art

Christina Aguilera
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Christina María Aguilera is an American singer, songwriter, actress and television personality. Born in Staten Island, New York and raised in Rochester and Wexford, Pennsylvania, she appeared on the television series Star Search, after recording Reflection, the theme for Disneys 1998 film Mulan, Aguilera signed with RCA Records. She rose to promine

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Aguilera at the Sanremo Music Festival

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Aguilera performing "The Voice Within", the fifth single from Stripped, during The Stripped Tour (2003)

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Aguilera singing "What A Girl Wants" during the "Back to Basics World Tour"

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Aguilera (at premiere of "To John With Love", September 2010).

Blink-182
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Blink-182 is an American rock band formed in Poway, California in 1992. The band currently consists of bassist and vocalist Mark Hoppus, drummer Travis Barker, Blink-182 was initially known as Blink until an Irish band of the same name threatened legal action, in response, the band appended the meaningless number -182. In its early years, Blink-182

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Blink-182 performing in 2011. From left to right: Mark Hoppus, Travis Barker, and Tom DeLonge.

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The band formed in San Diego, California, seen here at the time of the group's creation in 1992.

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The band performed constantly and soon became a mainstay at all-ages venue Soma San Diego; this poster is from 1994.

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Blink-182 at the Showcase Theater in Corona, California in 1995.

NSYNC
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NSYNC was an American boy band formed in Orlando, Florida in 1995 and launched in Germany by BMG Ariola Munich. NSYNC consisted of Justin Timberlake, JC Chasez, Chris Kirkpatrick, Joey Fatone, and Lance Bass.42 million copies in one week, blige, country music supergroup Alabama, and Gloria Estefan. Although NSYNC announced the start of a hiatus in

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NSYNC

Gloria Estefan
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Gloria Estefan is a Cuban-American singer, songwriter, actress, and businesswoman. She started off her career as the singer in the group called Miami Latin Boys which was eventually known as Miami Sound Machine. Estefans breakthrough success with Conga in 1985 made her known worldwide and it won the grand prix in the 15th annual Tokyo Music Festiva

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Gloria Estefan in 2012

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Gloria Estefan receiving flowers for her birthday at her show in the Ahoy Rotterdam, September 1, 2008

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Gloria Estefan performs at an event to celebrate the United Through Reading program aboard the Nimitz class aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71), September 14, 2006

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The Cardozo hotel on Ocean Drive, in Miami Beach, Florida.

Freddie Prinze Jr.
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Freddie James Prinze Jr. is an American actor. He starred in films, such as I Know What You Did Last Summer, I Still Know What You Did Last Summer, Shes All That, Scooby-Doo. He is currently the voice of Kanan Jarrus in the Disney XD series Star Wars Rebels and he is the husband of Sarah Michelle Gellar and worked for WWE as a producer and director

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Prinze at the Tribeca Film Festival, April 29, 2007

98 Degrees
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98 Degrees is an American pop and R&B boy band consisting of four vocalists, brothers Nick and Drew Lachey, Justin Jeffre, and Jeff Timmons. The group was formed by Timmons in Los Angeles, California, unlike most boy bands, they formed independently and were later picked up by a record label, rather than being assembled by a label or a producer. Th

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98 Degrees performing in 2012

BBMAK
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BBMak were an English pop/rock group consisting of Mark Barry, Christian Burns and Stephen McNally. Together they sold three million albums and had hit singles worldwide between 1999 and 2003 when they disbanded, the band guest starred on ABCs All My Children in 2000 and Disneys Even Stevens in 2001. They also featured on movie soundtracks. In 1999

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BBMAK, 2002. L-R: Christian Burns, Mark Barry and Stephen McNally

No Doubt
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No Doubt is an American rock band from Anaheim, California, that formed in 1986. Since 1994, the group has consisted of vocalist Gwen Stefani, bassist and keyboardist Tony Kanal, guitarist and keyboardist Tom Dumont, since the mid-1990s in live performances and the studio, they have been supported by keyboardist and trombonist Gabrial McNair and ke

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No Doubt in 2009

Enrique Iglesias
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Enrique Miguel Iglesias Preysler, known professionally as Enrique Iglesias, is a Spanish singer, songwriter, actor and record producer. He is widely regarded as the King of Latin Pop, in 2010, he parted with Interscope Records and signed with another Universal Music Group label Republic Records to release bilingual albums. In 2015, Iglesias parted

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Iglesias at the Euphoria World Tour in August 2011

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Iglesias with Ronald McDonald in 1999, his Cosas del Amor tour was sponsored by McDonald's.

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Enrique Iglesias frequently kisses and hugs his fans on stage.

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Iglesias in an interview on August 29, 2007.

David Spade
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David Wayne Spade is an American actor, stand-up comedian, writer and television personality. He rose to fame in the 1990s as a cast member on Saturday Night Live and he also starred and co-starred in the films Tommy Boy, Black Sheep, Joe Dirt, Joe Dirt 2, Beautiful Loser, Grown Ups, and Grown Ups 2, among others. He has also been part of an ensemb

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Spade in 2008

Aaron Carter
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Aaron Charles Carter is an American singer. He came to fame as a pop and hip hop singer in the late 1990s, establishing himself as a star among pre-teen, born in Tampa, Florida, Carter began performing at age seven and released his self-titled debut album in 1997. Carters next album, Oh Aaron, also went platinum, in 2002, followed by his 2003 Most

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Carter performing at the Gramercy Theatre in 2014

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Carter performing in 2005

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Carter onstage stage July 30, 2010

Nick Carter (musician)
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Nickolas Gene Nick Carter is an American singer, songwriter, actor, dancer, record producer, author and video director. He is best known as a member of the pop group the Backstreet Boys and he has made occasional television appearances and starred in his own reality shows, House of Carters and I Nick Carter. He gained fame in the mid 1990s and earl

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Nick Carter performing in Canada on August 19, 2012

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Nick performing live during the Backstreet Boys In a World Like This Tour at Nikon at Jones Beach Theater on August 13, 2013

Usher (singer)
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Usher Raymond IV is an American singer, songwriter, dancer, and actor. Born in Dallas, Texas but raised and lived in Chattanooga, Tennessee until moving to Atlanta, at the age of 12, his mother put him in local singing competitions, before catching the attention of a music A&R from LaFace Records. In 1994 he released his debut album, Usher. 8701 pr

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Usher performing with Stevie Wonder and Shakira at the We Are One: The Obama Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial

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Usher performing in 2010

Eve (rapper)
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Eve Jihan Jeffers-Cooper is an American rapper and actress from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She is also the winner of the Grammy Award for Best Rap/Sung Collaboration in 2002, for the song Let Me Blow Ya Mind. Eve was number 48 on VH1s 50 Greatest Women of the Video Era list and she has also achieved success in fashion, with her clothing line, Feti

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Eve at The Heart Truth 's Red Dress Collection Fashion Show in February 2011

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Eve at the premiere of Whip It at the 2009 Toronto International Film Festival

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Eve performing at the Roxy in 2013

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Maximillion and Eve at the Gumball 3000 launch party.

Gwen Stefani
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Gwen Renée Stefani is an American singer, songwriter, and fashion designer. During the bands hiatus, Stefani embarked on a pop career in 2004 by releasing her debut studio album Love. Inspired by pop music from the 1980s, the album was met both critical and commercial success. It spawned three successful singles, What You Waiting For. Rich Girl, an

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Stefani at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival

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Stefani performing with No Doubt at Voodoo 2002

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Stefani performing during the Harajuku Lovers Tour in 2005

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Stefani performing during The Sweet Escape Tour in 2007

Shaggy (musician)
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Orville Richard Burrell CD, known mostly by his stage name Shaggy, is a Jamaican-American reggae fusion singer and deejay. He is best known for his hit singles Oh Carolina, Boombastic, It Wasnt Me and he was nicknamed after Shaggy Rogers, the cartoon character from the popular television series Scooby Doo. Burrell was born on October 22,1968 in Kin

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Shaggy in 2006

Verne Troyer
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Verne Troyer is an American actor, stunt actor and comedian. He is notable for his height of 2 ft 8 in and he is best known for playing Mini-Me in the Austin Powers series of comedy films. Since 2014, Troyer has appeared as The Boss in adverts for gambling site Bgo. com, Troyer was born in Sturgis, Michigan, the son of Susan, a factory worker, and

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Troyer at the Supanova Pop Culture Expo Sydney, Australia in 2012

Nelly
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Cornell Iral Haynes, Jr. known professionally as Nelly, is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, entrepreneur, investor, and occasional actor from St. Louis, Missouri. Nelly embarked on his career with Midwest hip hop group St. Lunatics, in 1993. Under Universal, Nelly began his career in the year 2000, with his debut album Country Grammar. The a

BBMak
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BBMak were an English pop/rock group consisting of Mark Barry, Christian Burns and Stephen McNally. Together they sold three million albums and had hit singles worldwide between 1999 and 2003 when they disbanded, the band guest starred on ABCs All My Children in 2000 and Disneys Even Stevens in 2001. They also featured on movie soundtracks. In 1999

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BBMAK, 2002. L-R: Christian Burns, Mark Barry and Stephen McNally

Ashanti (singer)
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Ashanti Shequoiya Douglas, known simply as Ashanti, is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, dancer and actress. Ashanti is known for her eponymous album, which featured the hit song Foolish. In 2003, the debut album won Ashanti her first Grammy Award for Best Contemporary R&B album. Her second release achieved a certification and other

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Ashanti in February 2012

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Ashanti in 2005, performing at the United Service Organizations tour.

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US Navy Fire Controlman 2nd Class Cody Gilbert explains to Ashanti different equipment on the bridge of the guided-missile cruiser USS Port Royal (CG 73).

Kelly Clarkson
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Kelly Brianne Clarkson is an American singer and songwriter. She rose to fame in 2002 after winning the first season of American Idol, Clarksons debut single, A Moment Like This, topped the Billboard Hot 100 and became the best-selling single of 2002 in the U. S. It was followed with her studio album, Thankful, which debuted at number one on the Bi

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Clarkson at the 57th Presidential Inauguration, January 21, 2013

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Clarkson performed at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., on September 11, 2002, following her win on American Idol

Evanescence
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Evanescence /ˌɛv. æn. ˈɛs. ɛns/ is an American rock band founded in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1995 by singer/pianist Amy Lee and guitarist Ben Moody. After recording independent albums, the released their first full-length album, Fallen. Fallen sold more than 17 million copies worldwide and helped the band win two Grammy Awards out of seven nominati

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Evanescence performing at the concert in Le Zénith, Paris, featured on Anywhere but Home

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Amy Lee in 2007

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Evanescence on a concert at Maquinaria Festival, São Paulo, Brazil on November 8, 2009.

The Donnas
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The Donnas are an American rock band from Palo Alto, California. They consist of Brett Anderson, Allison Robertson, Maya Ford, Cesari replaced Torry Castellano, who left the band in 2009 due to tendonitis. They draw inspiration from Ramones, The Runaways, AC/DC, Bachman–Turner Overdrive, rolling Stone has stated that the Donnas offer a guileless ta